Why Adobe Stock reject good photos?

[lidiaspringer]

I retouched a series of photos according to Adobe Stock guidelines, minimal sharpness, denoising, removing chromatic aberration, colour correction... everything a little bit like in their instructions. + minimalist shots with free space, and they still rejected these photos (quality problem) (50 pieces). Is it because they were taken with a Canon 600D which has worse quality and sharpness? I have a lot of photos and I want to upload them before I switch to a Sony mirrorless camera for good, but I'm worried that I'll do the work on Sony and they'll reject everything too. And I think they're really PRO

I was surprised today when Alamy accepted these photos that Adobe Stock rejected. Here they are:

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What's wrong with them for Adobe?

and at the same time Adobe accepted one of my worst photo with huge chromatic aberration and a terrible shot:

https://stock.adobe.com/pl/images/wooden-obstacle-course-with-hanging-red-wheels-in-public-park/1305...

and at the same time Adobe accepts AI upscaled images with artifacts in the details

I wanted to create Pro portfolio on Adobe but it looks that like they deliberately don't want to accept the best photos

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[daniellei4510]

As I'm sure you're aware, you are not addressing Adobe here but contributors like yourself. Yes, Adobe sometimes accepts and rejects photos that leave us scratching our heads as to why not and why? If you post two or three here, perhaps we can offer some insights. As for assets being accepted (and even sold) on other sites, we are talking two different animals with two different requirements and standards.

[lidiaspringer]

ok, but I've read many posts here and I suspect they launched an AI content moderation machine without humans.

[Jill_C]

Adobe uses human moderators. We have not been advised otherwise.

[Abambo]

ok, but I've read many posts here and I suspect they launched an AI content moderation machine without humans.

By @lidiaspringer

I've read many things here. Such rumors come always from people who got their assets refused. Nobody is complaining that the AI did accept their assets. 

Adobe uses human moderators. They probably have specific tools to give them clues, but at the end of the day, it's a human doing the refusal. That has been confirmed multiple times by Adobe.

[Abambo]

May be you should post a link of such many posts?

[daniellei4510]

You may have read a post by somone one who only suggested they have.

[Douglas Spranger]

I hear you.  Your photos are excellent! I also had Adobe Stock reject my scanned, underwater Kodachrome slides, shot with Nikkor gear and 105 Micro lenses, each at nearly 50 MB, then converted per their requirement to PNG's.  Still in the 20 to 40 MB range.  They rejected ALL of them, citing not high enough resolution.  Here's a low-res example.  I do have 'stock' with Alamy, and one of their affiliated did the scans!!!

[Douglas Spranger]

Maybe I'll try posting my absolute worst photos (of anything) and see what happens.

[Jill_C]

Why are you converting to PNG's? Adobe's help pages clearly state that file type PNG is to be used only for images with a transparent background.

[Abambo]

(...)then converted per their requirement to PNG's. 

By @Douglas Spranger

Where do you read such a requirement?

The size of a picture is not a quality property, and refusals for resolution are non existant, as you can't upload anything that does not meet the resolution requirements.

Scans of old slides will not meet the quality requirements here, or only really in exceptional cases. That has to do with the quality of the slides. Digital pictures show much cleaner detail. There is nothing you can do about that.

[Abambo]

Alamy is not Adobe stock and they have a different moderation method. 

I agree with you, however, that Adobe accepts too many bad generative AI pictures.

If you want that we have a look into your picture, post ONE together with the refusal reason and we will have a look into that. The camera is never a reason for a refusal.