VerifiedHuman for Visual artists
The image carries your way of seeing.
A camera, a brush, a pencil, a screen. The essential contribution is yours.
Your vision needs your creative work.
The Visual Artists standard recognizes the human contribution to captured and created images. The question is what you made, captured, or arranged—not simply whether you selected an output you liked.
Technical help has a place.
Traditional image editing, exposure adjustment, color correction, and CAD tools can support a human practice. AI assistance must be understood in relation to the visual work itself. Reference research and generated visual content are different contributions.
Transformation must be substantial.
If you use AI-generated material, the finished work must reflect a substantial human transformation. Minor edits to an output do not, by themselves, establish the human contribution. The Capture or Arrangement Principle helps you examine what you actually brought to the work.
Give the audience the relevant context.
A caption, portfolio note, or linked process page can identify your contribution and any material AI involvement. Clear credits let the image and its history travel together.
Read it in full.
The complete standard and definitions explain the commitment, examples, and terms for your field.
Make the commitment.
Read the standard, consider your practice, and join when you can stand behind it.
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