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Please help to review this photo

Forum|Forum|3 days ago
April 23, 2026
5 replies
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It’s really kinda dishearting when you create photo, edit one by one carefully and got them all rejected massively….

I edited photos on Photoshop, made multiple revisions and confirmed there are no crushed blacks or blown-out highlights. I also double-checked the colors and curves, and everything seems fine. What other factors could be causing it to fall short of the quality standards?

I upload one of the examples, of course all other 99% photos are rejected…

Would appreciate if anyone can give me specific advise.

Is it base on the reviewer and not any technical point of view ? (for example tone curve, color grading etc )

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Oh.N8

With an image like this… ask yourself who would buy this?
Let’s go w a restaurant.

more often than not they would want to the dishes entirely ivisible and crisp.

the items like the kettle and the bowl don’t really add to the image. My eye is being pulled away from the hero.

some restaurants might want a bit of room for copy for a post or ad to the left

Nate

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I can tell you did not take this photo with a camera. It’s GenAI.

The rim of the bowl is blurry.
Steam from hot food should look like steam, not smoke. It’s a subtle difference that can make or break an AI image’s believability.

See link below.

https://lightroom.adobe.com/academy/genres/food/steam-and-smoke-wizardry?

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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fannreiAuthor

Inspiring

thank you, i’ll take more notice in future.
yes, it’s AI, i uploaded both photos taken with DSLR and also AI-generative (marked with AI) as many photos are being rejected massively recently, i am trying out AI recently, thinking that they might be doing job better than me.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

For starters, this is AI, not a photo, but I assume you marked the appropriate checkbox to note as much. But since you probably did, I think it might be too tightly cropped. I’d like to see the bottom of the bowl and more of the cup and hand pouring the syrup.

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fannreiAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you, it’s a close up, but anyway i’ll take notice of that.

Jill_C

Community Expert

The steam emanating from the bowl doesn’t seem realistic.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

jodij28273193

Inspiring

Like buyers are going to say, is that real smoke? It’s a good picture. Adobe should let the buyers decide what they are going to buy when nit picking things come up!

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Nevertheless, I’d remove the smoke. And I still contend that the close crop is the major issue. Food in and of itself doesn’t ordinarily produce smoke to this degree if at all unless it’s pulled directly from and oven. That’s more a thing one sees with hot drinks.

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jodij28273193

Inspiring

the acceptance here is getting very upsetting. The nit picking is ridiculous I stopped uploading and I have been doing this for 30 years. If I were to guess, It would be the bright lite in the background, which is nit picking. it is a beautiful picture and should not have been rejected. Fix the light, go over it at 100-1159 percent and see if there is any thing I am missing from the screen shot.

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