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The world has changed; one needs to keep up with the Joneses. or get left behind. AI is the new kid on the block!

And with that, the flood gates have been opened!

I have exactly the same feelings and problems.

Hey ​@Shan junai 

There is nothing wrong with putting in a bit of time and effort in PS or other tools to clean up an image and make it marketable.

some are tired of “AI slop”.  Whereas they don’t mind paying for an artistic piece that implements AI and human creativity. 

Cheers

Nate

All diamonds are not alike. 

Industrial & uncut diamonds are bland compared to GIA gemstones. 

Most customers want bling, not bland.

With 900+million assets in inventory, Adobe Stock has become fiercely competitive with itself. 

Yes, many of us share your frustration. I have submitted very few images this year. It’s just too much work to be met with quality rejections and the dreaded “similars” rejections which are often unjustified. 

It would appear that the standards for quality have indeed increased over the past 6 to 12 months. And since you mentioned prompting, it follows that as AI becomes better with nearly every passing day, then the quality standards for AI will become more stringent as well. At the risk of sounding harsh on Adobe’s behalf, how much hard work one puts into editing and upscaling an image is of little interest to Adobe. You can, after all, submit those same assets to other sites.

We hear it a lot: “These images were rejected by Adobe but were accepted on this or that stock site.” That’s because Adobe is not like other stock sites. Consider this: one has an image that Adobe deems less than perfect and thus rejects it. Even with flaws upon careful inspection, another stock site accepts it nevertheless. Why? Because other sites know that there is no accounting for taste. If the contributor feels that the image is flawless, then it’s likely there are buyers who will consider it flawless as well and purchase it. I myself have sold a number of assets that I submitted early on that I wouldn’t give a second thought to submitting today.

Judging from older assets that were submitted years ago to Adobe Stock (especially early examples of poorly rendered AI, OMG!), Adobe might have had a similar attitude at one time. But that appears to have changed. Perfect isn't necessarily perfect enough, and even the occasional diamonds need to shine a bit brighter than the diamonds submitted before them (e.g., similar content rejections).