Adobe is very strange now with quality rejections.

I submit about ten AI images per day (don't be mad, I spend a lot of time on them). More than half of them get rejected, and about half of those are for "too similiar". Because Adobe can handle 30,000 blue gradient backgrounds, but that single surreal image of ships trapped inside glass boxes at the bottom of the ocean is "too similiar". (You may not like the image, but it wasn't rejected for quality.)

Another example: a very specific metaphor for a finanical crisis, a bear and a bull hugging each other in support, looking depressed. Yes, there are many pictures using the bear and bull symbols, but none of them have used this particular metaphor. It seems very much like an AI said, "bear, bull, market charts: similar". 

Here's a very simple image of a model posing in a white dress with her arms up. If you do a "find similar" search using this image, 33,877,521 images come up. I suppose they're all similiar in the sense that...some of them have women in sleeveless tops or dresses. Maybe a third of them have their arms up. None of them have the same dress on or exactly the same look. None of them have her hands curling in that exact elegant way. How did Adobe deside that the 33,877,522nd picture of "woman with/without sleeveless top with/without short hair lifting/not lifting her hands in front of a beige backdrop" was too many? It seems entirely arbitrary.

The last one actually got rejected for quality issues. It's an impresssionistic style illustion of foxes, rejected for quality. I've scoured the image. Is it the way their bodies fade into darkness with blueish frost? Is it the way their whiskers are rendered. Both of those look cool to me and fall into the territory of artistic choices. Adobe seems to be rejecting images on matters of aesthetic taste.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Just wanted to share. Any useful feeback appreciated.

Another one joining this thread. As I've said in other posts, until things get cleared up, I've stopped uploading images here and have signed up for Alamy along with my usual agencies (Shutterstock and iStock).

By the way, I remember that this started for me a few months ago, and I debated on this forum with some people who signed as "volunteers" that this was an AI (I would upload a batch of about 20 photos, and within 2 or 3 seconds they would be rejected for clearly "false" reasons, and others in that batch would take a month or more to be reviewed). They denied it and even told me to improve my images and my technique and update my equipment (with more than 15,000 accepted), and today I'm reading that it's happening to them too. It's just life!!!
Regards
Jose Luis

Yes, it happened to me as well, I submitted 10 photos and got rejected 10 photos in a few minutes, the other time I sent 11 photos and got accepted only 1 photo,with rejected quality issued is very annoying but on the Shutterstock my photos were approved 💯 percent, with rejected quality issued is very annoying 

Hello,

Perhaps this is a small thing, and maybe not.

I think the photos could be lightened up a bit. There is a lot of light reflection coming off the snow, so this has to be taken into account.  

So, maybe increase exposure a bit and tweak the white balance.

Perhaps something like this:

I looked at both photos and checked the histograms and I have to agree with you. These photos should have been accepted.

I submit only photographs and for many years now have maintained a rejection rate of less than 5%. But my year-to-date rejection rate has shot up to 40%. I also shoot with high-end professional equipment and carefully edit each image prior to submission. AI Contributors are also reporting higher rejection rates, particularly for "similars". Adobe has remained silent on what changes they've implemented to the reviewing process. I'm going to stop uploading any new work until we gain some clarity about these changes. Meanwhile, I'll start feeding my Getty account again, which I've neglected for quite a while.

Calm down a bit and read the previous threads.
There are many similar threads.
You are not the only one experiencing this problem.