quality issues help

Forum|Forum|2 months ago
November 4, 2025
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I'm just a newbie, so there might be some things I don't understand yet. My AI-generated photo was rejected due to quality issues. Can any experts give me some advice?

Size: 6.81 MB, sRGB color, image size 5200*5200.

Contributor critique

Abambo

Community Expert

You have noise in the image
upsizing cause aliasing around the cup.
there are inconsitances in the image, like this:

The overall size in pixels and the megabytes are not useful quality indicators, except that a 5k image probably means that you upsized the image a lot. sRGB is a requirement for Adobe stock, but I never saw an image getting refused for violating this requirement. But yes, it is good to follow up with this.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

J

jasmine_8536

Participant

It's more likely not about the size, but rather the lighting, composition, or realism, which probably didn't meet their quality standards.

Ricky336

Community Expert

Hello,

This may or may not be a consideration, but the background with the blurred lights as round dots are somewhat distracting.

I think the steam from the cup is okay, as one wants to give the impression of a hot cup of chocolate, especially with the marshmallows on top. Do something else with the background.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Steam vapor & smoke look & behave differently. This looks less like steam from a hot drink and more like cigar or cigarette smoke from behind the cup. It's not convincing.

AI is rarely accurate. Sometimes it can be fixed, sometimes not. I would discard this and start over with a simpler text prompt.

This is your competition in Stock inventory:

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=hot+cocoa+christmas

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert