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FAQS – IMAGE REQUIREMENTS
Find out about requirements for your images before submitting to the award.
We accept photos from any photographic device – film camera, digital camera or cell phone, as well as experimental techniques such as cyanotype photography. We do not accept artificial intelligence or AI-generated imagery. Images can be of any aspect ratio – landscape, portrait or square.
Please make sure that each image file is .jpg or .jpeg format, and less than 8mb in size. We recommend around 2500px longest dimension. We’ll of course ask for bigger images if you’re chosen as an exhibitor.
For re-sizing your images, we recommend learning an editing software package like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, although we also find www.tinypng.com to be effective and very simple to use (and it works for jpgs, despite the “png” in its title).
Don’t worry about naming your images – they’ll be automatically linked to your account and the competition when you submit them. If you would like to add a statement, titles or descriptions please include them in the description box on the upload page.
We accept images old and new – It doesn’t matter when they were taken. You may submit the same images to multiple competitions and also to your Series Award entry.
Yes. Life Framer respects your rights and does not claim copyright for works you submit to the award. You will retain full copyright in each image you submit, with us granted a licence to use the image for specific purposes (e.g. publishing on our social media and website if you are a winner, printing one copy for our winners’ exhibitions). We do not sell usage rights to your images or use them to train AI algorithms. For more details, please read our full rules.
Yes, we accept all forms of post-processing and image manipulation (including cropping and re-coloring) as well as mixed-media art, collaging or compositing, as long as photography is at the heart of your work. Please note that some judges may be less interested in heavy post-processing, and so we recommend that it is done tastefully. We We do not accept artificial intelligence or AI-generated imagery.
Yes, when you submit your images there is a description box in which you can add text such as titles, descriptions or a series statement. You do not need to submit your entries one by one – you can submit them together, with one set of text that includes individual descriptions of your images in the order of upload.
Please do not include watermarks on your images. While we recognize that you want to protect your provenance of your work, it is no longer common practice to add watermarks to images shared online, and can at worst detract from the impact of your images. Instead, we ensure that the images we post are always of relatively low file weight (which heavily limits what anyone who wants to take a copy of your image can do with it), with full photographer copyright details alongside.
