very long approval time for uploaded photos

Hi Mr Community beginner,

You should look at the labels. Only when you see “Adobe employee”, you communicate with an Adobe employee.

Submissions are vetted in the order they get submitted. If there is some waiting time, that means that there are plenty of assets in the waiting queue before you, and you have to wait.

There is only one good reason to react to a long waiting time: As long as you are not a confirmed contributor and this is your first contribution, your asset will not get processed until your ID has been approved.

That all the respondents here assume that you have submitted generative AI is because many posters here confound “photos” with “generative AI illustrations”.

And you err in assuming that you have a right to get your assets moderated faster. Moderation is done to protect the potential customer of bad or non-conforming assets. It's not done for you to have a decent income. And if there are many submissions, it is not a problem from that perspective if moderation takes some time. Adobe adds massively new assets to the database. Good for Adobe, bad for us contributors, as our chance to get selected by a potential buyer gets lower and lower.

You're welcome.