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Currently, 1-3 months is the normal range. I think you're still in the timeframe I'd expect. I haven't heard anyone getting to 4 months yet, so that's where I would start to get concerned. But I suspect you'll have some reviewed by then.
Cheers!
Images are taking 2-3 months, photos 2 to 3 weeks.
If you've read any of the other posts in this forum, you would have learned that review time is a frequent topic of discussion here. Due to the continuing huge influx of Generative AI assets, there is a considerable backlog in the queue, and there is nothing you can do to hasten the process. Be patient.
11 days is not a long time currently. Even Adobe tells you, that it can take about 4 weeks. Current moderation times are erratic, from several hours to several months. According to Adobe, it does not take more than 2 months after submission.
"I have another question, there are photos on the Rejected page even from 2022. Will the photos on this page remain and not be deleted?"
Yes. They will remain there forever and ever and ever. Maybe (and this is just a guess) moderators refer to them now and again to make sure changes have been made if the images are submitted again at a later date.
I wanted to write a response. I upload and send, I never keep them waiting. Currently, 256 of my photos are waiting for review. The first one was sent 1 month ago, and I am excitedly waiting to see how this process will continue.
According to the information below, I think I should wait another 4 weeks and then worry 🙂
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Whatever you think, it's not as this asset has been sticking around for 9 months in the submission queue. I just did submit it. 😂 It's a test file for me, that won't make to a moderator. I just decided, that I need to get rid of this for the momement. So upload and submission times are different things.
Maybe (and this is just a guess) moderators refer to them now and again to make sure changes have been made if the images are submitted again at a later date.
By @daniellei4510
That's impossible, as they are only thumbnails. I suppose the the originals get cleaned up after a while, if not immediately after the rejection.
Then perhaps they serve as reminders to us. 🙂
By @daniellei4510
They remind me of my failures, forever… 😂
I don't know if I'm considered a professional, but Adobe rejects the majority of my photos. I guess according to Adobe I'm not a professional.
By @Hatice Sever
You are a professional if at least part of your revenue comes from this activity. Rejections are not a measure of professionalism. Indeed, many of my pictures, used professionally, wouldn't meet Adobe's expectations. Stock is a beast on its own, and different stock agencies have their own rules.
By the way, I think it provides insufficient explanation for the rejection. For example, it only says Quality Issues, maybe I will fix my photo with Adobe Photoshop, but I don't understand how to fix it. Noise issue, exposure or focus etc. They can say it is.
By @Hatice Sever
7 years ago (my second refusal!), refusals were more explicit, but of the same style. I have refusals for exposure, artefacts, focus etc.
But all that has now been grouped together in “Quality Issues”. That's a decision less to take for the moderators, making the moderation process much more efficient. They got over 100 million submissions last year. They are still catching up with the generative AI flood. And Adobe has us, fellow contributors who love to help. Use that help. BTW: most images have more than one flaw, so pointing out only one maybe misleading. Many here even bark at us, when we enumerate also IP problems, when the refusal was “Quality”. They don't understand that the refusal comes at the first flaw detected, not with all flaws.
I decided that I wanted to have an archive in Adobe like on the other platform.
In short, I will follow your suggestion and upload it every day or every three days. I am already actively taking photos, preparing and uploading them. I will definitely have more questions in the coming days. Thank you for your answers.
By @Hatice Sever
Start with a selection of your best pictures. If you have themed assets, Eastern themes may be now to upload. Good luck.
IF the image is well done, with one undesirable flaw. It then allows for clear understanding of the error, which can likely be corrected..
By @ImaRetiredTeacher
Moderators do not know, how many flaws in a picture are. The first error the moderator sees will trigger the refusal. In your case, the moderator selected an old refusal reason, that mostly got replaced by “Quality Issues”.
Formerly, you had exposure issues, artefacts, focus…
You see here a selection of my hard-earned refusals…
What if they are moderating an image and there's nothing wrong until thevery last aspect that they are checking for? Then in that case, yes they doknow that there is only one issue, right?
By @ImaRetiredTeacher
Yes, but that is not relevant to them. Reducing the number of refusal reasons is simply accelerating the moderation process.
Number 1: quality
Number 2: IP
Number 3: Non-compliant
Number 4: aesthetics
If you add more refusal reasons, that may lead to more time to decide, more confusion for selecting the wrong reason. Time is crucial, as a moderator who can do a moderation in 10 seconds, against one who does the same moderation in 9 seconds, the one with 9 seconds moderates 200 assets more in 5 hours. Make that with 1000 moderators, you get 200,000 moderated in addition.
And at the end of the day, it does not change much to know more about the first error encountered, knowing that a good majority of the assets have more than one issue.
Sure, it would be interesting for you to know more precisely what is wrong with your asset. But as the aim is to protect the customers and not to make the contributors better contributors, it's more efficient this way. Either you learn to contribute correct assets or you drop out. In both cases, Adobe is winning.
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