Is this the critique forum?

[água-viva_7358]

Am having photos rejected and message suggests I post on the critique forum. Just want to make sure this is the right place. Photos are meant to have very small dots so I'm thinking it might be a Adobe's AI's mistake if not seen by a human??

Just adding a screenshot here for quick reference. Can post the full picture for critique once confirmation about the correct forum comes. Many thanks.

[RALPH_L]

This is the correct forum but, you need to post the original files for us to review. The DPI is not the problem if the assets were allowed to upload.

[água-viva_7358]

thanks for the reply. just checking if it was the right place. 

photos attached. any comments welcome. can't understand what the problem would be.

[Abambo]

Those are very abstract assets, and it is not easy to know in advance how the moderators react. I can see why they could refuse the assets, but there could also be reason to accept them. Adobe stock may not be the right place to sell such assets.

[água-viva_7358]

thanks for the reply but adobe stock also sells plenty of abstract images. if the photos are technically correct i don't see any reason for them to be rejected. 

any suggestions or recommendartions as to how to proceed?

[Abambo]

thanks for the reply but adobe stock also sells plenty of abstract images. if the photos are technically correct i don't see any reason for them to be rejected. 

By @água-viva_7358

Artefacts:

There is no right to get your assets accepted, and moderators decisions are final. You could make one or the other modification, and try submitting again. If you get a moderator that does not check the assets as stringently, it may pass. I see plenty of reasons why I would refuse the assets, but I also have seen worse passing the moderation.

And yes, Adobe has plenty of abstract assets in the database, but there are plenty of abstract assets that are refused. Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger, and as such, I do not have an opinion on your assets, except for what I can check.

BTW: they are illustrations, not photos.

[água-viva_7358]

hi abambo, thanks for your reply and visual notes.

would you mind sharing the many reasons why you would reject the assets? i really don't mind constructive criticism, i'm actually trying to understand why they were refused so as to decide if i should try again or not. without a reason or a clearer understanding of adobe's paramaters, it's kinda hard to know what is acceptable or not. does that make sense? both abstract and figurative assets get rejected and accepted, so i would need to know what the problem is before continuing to upload my work.

this photo/illustration label is a forever debate. i get it. in this case it would be "photographic illustration". i don't care how adobe prefers to call it, i'm fine either way. 

[daniellei4510]

What @Abambo said. Or work on other projects. Sometimes you just have to roll with the punches and move on. 😉

[água-viva_7358]

hi, thanks. no prob with punches. so long as i know why them jabs are being thrown. 

[daniellei4510]

And it's doubtful you'll receive an answer when it comes to why, especially when it comes to abstract images. They're just too easy to make anymore with little or no background in art, AI, Photoshop, editing, etc. Their commercial value decreases significantly for that reason alone. I asked chatGPT: "Create an abstract image." That was it. No further instructions. And it gave me this. Kinda nice, though I wouldn't bother submitting it. And as a buyer, why would I use up one or more of my credits to buy it when I get 3 free credits every day to use chatGPT and could easily make something like this myself?

[Jill_C]

That is actually a very impressive and beautiful image !

[daniellei4510]

I know, right? 🙂 But you know what? I'll bet you can go to ChatGPT right now and type "Please create an abstract image," and there's a very good chance you'll get the same exact result. ChatGPT does little when it comes to randomization. 

[daniellei4510]

I say this because I experimented with a prompt someone posted on a Facebook form. It was the first time I used their text-to-AI feature after it was annnounced. I copied and pasted the exact same detailed prompt (it was a decent sized paragraph with very specific instructions) and it generated the exact same image as the original prompt. ChatGPT appears to be a whole different animal in that it doesn't rely on randomness. This allows a user to make very specifc changes to a result without making changes elsewhere in the image. Say you want a kid holding red balloons, for example, but you decide the balloons should be blue. ChatGPT will change the color of the balloons but the kid and everything else in the result will be exactly the same as the original result.

Will it work the same if one typed in a less that specific prompt, like, "Create an abstract image." I don't know. I haven't played with it enough and I've only used my daily freebees to experiment with it. I'm not buying any AI minutes right now until we have a better idea of what's going on with all the "similar" rejections.

[água-viva_7358]

any recommendations as to how to proceed if the photos don;t have anything wrong technically?

[Jill_C]

There is no avenue for us to dispute the rejections. Some rejections, particularly in the last few months, don't make sense, but there's nothing we can do about it. You can edit them slightly and resubmit hoping for a different outcome next time, submit them to another stock agency, or just move on.

[água-viva_7358]

your reply makes me think that it is not a human who is judging what we upload. it's the kind of error and randomness that would come from an ai. could it be?

[Abambo]

your reply makes me think that it is not a human who is judging what we upload. it's the kind of error and randomness that would come from an ai. could it be?

By @água-viva_7358

Why? No AI. Human moderators. They may have some support from custom Adobe tools, however.