Rejected photos

[Ирина388962562nxf]

Good afternoon. I uploaded images made in the technique of vintage textured sepia, antiquity and scuffs. Some of my images were rejected. The images are generated using AI and uploaded in a resolution of 4096 x 2341, 4096 x 4096 pixels. Could you tell me what's wrong with them and what's the reason? I would like to understand how to fix these errors.

[Jill_C]

Here's what the help page says about color conversions:

Don’t: Convert your image to black and white or duotone. Buyers want the maximum flexibility provided by the full color image. 

I suspect this is the primary reason for the rejection. It's easy enough for Buyers to do their own monochrome or sepia conversions if desired.

[daniellei4510]

The eyes in both of these images could be improved, but these in particular. I'd also fix the scratches myself. Let the buyer add them if they wish. One moderator might be fine with them, another one not so much.

[oleschwander]

Something is not right regarding the hair and eyes.

[daniellei4510]

I'm curious. Were some of the accepted images similar to these, with the "old photo" theme?

[Ирина388962562nxf]

daniellei4510, good afternoon. Yes, there were images that were accepted.  (I'm sorry if the sentences are not quite correct in meaning - I communicate with the help of a translator.)
Here are some of them  - https://stock.adobe.com/ru/search?filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aphoto%5D=1&filters%5Bcontent_type%3Aillus... 

[daniellei4510]

Thank you. I've had 100 or more black and white or monochrome images accepted.  Many have sold, often multiple times for the same image, but certainly not as regularly as my full color assets. They were AI, and sometimes my prompts requested them to be as such, or they were randomly created without specific prompting (I sometimes use complex mathematical formulas, and the results can be very randomized).

Of note is that the one or two of my assets that were rejected were black and white, but with localized colorization (red lips, for example). After desaturating the color areas, they were accepted. So localized colorization is almost definitely a no-no.

I think "no black and white" is a strong suggestion, but not a requirement. A search for "black and white" will confirm this. On the other hand, given the theme of these images, they wouldn't make much sense had they been done in full color. Black and white conversions of images originally done in color DO get rejected on a regular basis, but I've always gotten the impression they were done so for the sake of being "artsy," or that the color version was weak and that maybe converting it magically made it more interesting. It doesn't work that way.