The tree itself is not an external image but rather one from Photoshop Elements - Background presets. I have specified this on the post, hopefully this will suffice.
Hi @photoark, I hope that you'll understand that I cannot afford to research this specific case. With 30-40 submissions per round, the LMAC depends on its participants to proactively provide the sources of all used materials so that it can be checked by a single click that no copyrights are attached. If assets provided by a certain app or software are used it is also up to the participant, that the respective Terms & Conditions are checked and the relevant passage linked in the entry. Thank you!
Hi,
I understand your point of view and I was limiting my compositions to the plugins available in the image editor tool (Photoshop Elements) in order not to fall in any copyright infringements from other sources. The plugin is used as is without any 3rd party source and it falls into the editor licensing as free of use.
While I couldn't find in the license agreement a dedicated line for presets - brushes, lines, backgrounds etc. - hopefully it is good enough that is part of the application itself. If not you can disregard the post for this contest and will try to use 3rd parties images going further.