January 2025 Competition Updates - Canadian Association for Photographic Art

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January 2025 Competition Updates - Canadian Association for Photographic Art

January 2025 Competition Updates

January 11, 2025
, 8:51 am

Updated (January 1, 2025) CAPA Stance on Artificial Intelligence

We’ve expanded our Artificial Intelligence guidelines to include several new photography enhancement tools. This update, effective January 1, 2025, now addresses:

New AI Tools:

Adobe Photoshop’s Neural Filters
Additional text-to-image Generative AI applications
Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Raw’s “Enhanced” feature
Reflection removal tools in both Adobe Camera Raw and Adobe Lightroom

Special thanks to Greg Aldous of the London Camera Club for his valuable input regarding the Photoshop Neural Filters.

This policy revision supersedes our previous version from December 13, 2024.

You can view this new document here (English) (French)

A hyperlink to this document is also included in the Editing Criteria Section for each of our forthcoming photo competitions.

Competitions Open For Uploading of Images

2025 Ontario Zone Competition – closes on January 15, 2025
2025 Fine Art Competition – closes on January 30, 2025
2025 Quebec Zone Competition – closes on February 15, 2025
2025 Colour Competition – closes on February 28, 2025

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