Author Topic: New submission limits for Adobe Stock Contributors (Read 3536 times)

f8 · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2025, 13:30 »

Quote from: cobalt on May 21, 2025, 13:23

Quote from: f8 on May 21, 2025, 12:08
Quote from: cobalt on May 21, 2025, 09:58
The ignore button, so useful…

Where do I find that button? I can see it could come in handy.

Lower right of a post. next to report to moderator.

You can reverse it anytime. Sometimes I do, then I usually put trolls back on ignore.

Makes life a lot easier.

Magic. Thanks.

Camillo · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2025, 14:19 »

Quote from: Adobe Stock Contributor Relations on May 20, 2025, 09:24

Hello!

We’re introducing updated submission limits for Adobe Stock Contributors to help maintain the strength and quality of our growing collection. These updates support the continued success of both our Contributor community and customers alike.

When you reach your weekly submission limit or the maximum amount of allowed content pending moderation, you will experience a temporary pause before you can submit additional content.

From what I read in the email it contradicts what Adobe has said in the past, it said that your rejections did not affect you as a contributor. Now I have a collection of around 4100 images and videos. More than half of what I submit is rejected for image quality reasons and such. I always felt that if there was a little more info I would know what I can do better next time but its a very aleatory rejection process. I have had apologies from Adobe about that saying they are only human and I accept that and just went along with the process.

But now if rejections are going to affect what I can submit, then this becomes a form of punishment but for what? No one says what I can do to do it better or tries to help. I don’t go on forums showing my work because it’s non of other people’s business. This is Adobe criteria I try to adhere to. So wish for a little more partnership and less blame sort of thing.

Thanks.

f8 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2025, 17:31 »

Quote from: Camillo on May 21, 2025, 14:19

Quote from: Adobe Stock Contributor Relations on May 20, 2025, 09:24
Hello!

We’re introducing updated submission limits for Adobe Stock Contributors to help maintain the strength and quality of our growing collection. These updates support the continued success of both our Contributor community and customers alike.

When you reach your weekly submission limit or the maximum amount of allowed content pending moderation, you will experience a temporary pause before you can submit additional content.

From what I read in the email it contradicts what Adobe has said in the past, it said that your rejections did not affect you as a contributor. Now I have a collection of around 4100 images and videos. More than half of what I submit is rejected for image quality reasons and such. I always felt that if there was a little more info I would know what I can do better next time but its a very aleatory rejection process. I have had apologies from Adobe about that saying they are only human and I accept that and just went along with the process.

But now if rejections are going to affect what I can submit, then this becomes a form of punishment but for what? No one says what I can do to do it better or tries to help. I don’t go on forums showing my work because it’s non of other people’s business. This is Adobe criteria I try to adhere to. So wish for a little more partnership and less blame sort of thing.

Thanks.

To be fair, I have no clue what is going on at Adobe. Everything is incredibly vague to a fault. It's not the same Adobe of a few years ago that is for sure, not even close. The crazy part is I think winning the roulette wheel in Vegas has better odds and I don't even know how to play.

Pacesetter · « **Reply #28 on:** May 21, 2025, 17:59 »

I'm noticing video review times have improved. I'm only submitting a couple of videos at a time as I don't create as much content for stock but its good to see reviews being done within good time, sometimes within hours of submitting.

zeljkok · « **Reply #29 on:** May 22, 2025, 00:15 »

This whole Roulette / Lack of transparency is making an impact. I am slowly uploading backlog from trip to Spain last winter. I started skipping Adobe; why bother? Will not be reviewed for months/years, then rejected with ambiguous reason that just makes you feel disrespected.

I honestly hope they will realize this is only hurting them as agency, and come to terms honest contributors are biggest assets of their business. But I probably live in Fantasy world.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #30 on:** May 22, 2025, 05:04 »

dear Adobe...yesterday you were a bit mean,because you reject 8 people images,but then I looked at the pictures again and noticed that the people in the pictures looked a little sad and disappointed,because they were slightly underexposed,and they also had a slightly red and unnatural tone,especially the girl's cheeks...

...so i opened Photoshop again,and used the new tool to adjust the colors(cool tool by the way)and all the people in the pictures found a new tone and brightness and they were all happier,especially the girl who had red cheeks and who you have now accepted and she is very happy now....

...but his friends are still sad,because they were rejected again,maybe because the description indicates the subject that should not be the subject and I have to specify better what instead at first sight,so I'll try one last time by modifying the description so it can't be said that the subject is not in focus and of quality....

...and since you're around there,could you take a look at my videos?Even just with one eye,but only if you've already had lunch,because if you haven't had lunch you're a little disappointed and nervous,and then you reject all my videos...

....and if you reject all my videos i can't have my lunch,and then I will have to start eating my shoes,and if I eat my shoes,then I feel a little heavy,and I can't walk to facilitate digestion,because I don't have shoes anymore...

...and then I feel a little heavy,and I can't walk,so then I feel sick,and if I feel sick then I end up in hospital,and if I end up in hospital then they'll give me anesthesia,and if they give me anesthesia,then I can't produce videos anymore...

...and if I don't produce videos anymore,then the whole world will be sad about it,and we don't want all of this,right Adobe?

angelacat · « **Reply #31 on:** May 22, 2025, 10:28 »

The rejection things is annoying especially when you can't work out what it actually got rejected for. Totally understand fair rejections that are my fault.

I usually just brush rejections off unless I'm getting a lot and it's something I'm doing wrong.

Feeling more anxious about rejections now in case I get blocked from uploading because either I made a mistake (humans make mistakes) or because of a review process mistake.

Let's hope it plays out fairly and doesn't turn into Adobe Gestapo.

My biggest fear is that they will prefer AI images and this is a way of discouraging images made by humans.

Injustice for all - well said and LOL.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #32 on:** May 22, 2025, 14:38 »

probably now more than ever real content is more than desired,given the increased influx of AI content.

the truth,imo,is that they have been quite soft in the past on reviews,and now instead they have become more selective,as is right in my opinion,because the market has become more selective and the customers more demanding,then other factors also came into play,with AI.

anyway,at least as far as I'm concerned,I always see that the review are concrete and well done,the best content is always accepted,and there is always a reason why a content is rejected,this is my opinion.

then surely there will be some errors,in this chaos of uploads,some errors I think could even be normal,but from what I see in my review,the errors are really very few,almost non-existent I would say.

wordplanet · « **Reply #33 on:** May 22, 2025, 14:50 »

Stuff I uploaded last week - including some AI Christmas stuff I figured I had better add now or it wouldn't be available until Christmas 2026 - was all reviewed yesterday and most were accepted. I was shocked but something has definitely improved!

I upload small batches - I think the most I've ever added in an entire month is about 35 images, so the new upload limits are welcome and whatever they are set at, I know I won't hit the limit - I just hope that they keep the spammers at bay and mean we start to see normal review times again.

I'd felt discouraged from uploading because my content was sitting for weeks on end with part of a batch being approved and the rest never getting seen. I've been really sick and unable to get out most days but I happened to take a few iPhone images a couple of weeks ago when I was well enough to get out to see some friends and they were accepted right away - (they were mostly illustrative editorial - always a faster review). Anyway, one of them was licensed the day after it was online, so I figured I'd add some more. I guess my timing was fortuitous.

I think Jasmin's suggestion that our welcome screen tell us how many uploads we have available is a great idea. For those of you with big portfolios who are super productive, it would only seem fair. I've been playing with AI since I rarely get out to shoot these days and kudos to Jasmin's suggestions - I researched Christmas trends for the year, couldn't face rooting around in my very hot attic to find props - so I made some AI "photos" instead. I spent ages fixing their flaws, so was happy that most were accepted. Now I'll see how good my research was.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #34 on:** May 23, 2025, 06:05 »

and I agree on this.

of course if it was possible to know what limits you have it would be better,who knows maybe this will be done too,but I don't know if it's possible,since limits depend on different factors,such as account,approval rate and general performance.

anyway yes,these limits are necessary and welcome.

I produce AI content practically every day,and so I know that AI content needs to be worked on a lot with generative fill,color adjusted,blurs...are full of imperfections and needs to be improved carefully.

that's why I don't understand how someone can upload 100 AI contents per day,from my point of view it's practically impossible.

From what I see,there is not a single AI content that is perfect as it is generated.

when the AI content is generated,at the moment I download it,it looks good,but then when I open Photoshop and look at it carefully I never stop finding imperfections and things that can be improved.

and with these new limits,in my opinion,we can all work better,and give ourselves the time we need.

fotoroad · « **Reply #35 on:** May 23, 2025, 06:41 »

Quote from: angelacat on May 22, 2025, 10:28

The rejection things is annoying especially when you can't work out what it actually got rejected for. Totally understand fair rejections that are my fault.

I usually just brush rejections off unless I'm getting a lot and it's something I'm doing wrong.

Feeling more anxious about rejections now in case I get blocked from uploading because either I made a mistake (humans make mistakes) or because of a review process mistake.

Let's hope it plays out fairly and doesn't turn into Adobe Gestapo.

My biggest fear is that they will prefer AI images and this is a way of discouraging images made by humans.

Injustice for all - well said and LOL.

I do not think Adobe is proffered AI images at this moment, yesterday I upload 10 images around 9 years old an it was approved. I believe it was still more important what is on the images and quality.

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #36 on:** May 23, 2025, 08:05 »

Quote from: cobalt on May 21, 2025, 13:23

Quote from: f8 on May 21, 2025, 12:08
Quote from: cobalt on May 21, 2025, 09:58
The ignore button, so useful…

Where do I find that button? I can see it could come in handy.

Lower right of a post. next to report to moderator.

You can reverse it anytime. Sometimes I do, then I usually put trolls back on ignore.

Makes life a lot easier.

lol trolls are people like f8/zeljok/and sometimes you too cobalt, who ... instead of thinking, have conditinoed like pavlovian dogs and acting 'morally righteous' to ignore the obvious. stating a fact, the fact being that east indians/pakistanis in general are stealing your portfolios, is not 'trolling'.

but - ALL of you should stop whining like little children then when your content DOES get stolen, because... it seems - you think by pretending it doesn't happen and being 'morally outraged' that somehow magically that fixes things. it doesn't.

stop accepting people who don't have ethics, and in general - yes, east indians/pakistanis, and many of the arab states. that's just how they "do business". its their "culture". get educated on it. it will help you.

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #37 on:** May 23, 2025, 08:12 »

Quote from: Injustice for all on May 21, 2025, 05:15

it's always better now with submission limits.

a few days ago i was reading about someone who uploads 100 contents a day,sometimes getting rejections of 90% but other times rejections of 50% or less,so in the end he gets approvals for more than a thousand contents per month,which in my opinion is too much.

it's too much because sending 100 contents a day means that these contents are poorly made,from every point of view,even from the indexing point of view,because there simply isn't enough time to create and send 100 contents a day.

Even if you use an AI for indexing,the results should be checked,because there are many errors in the generated results,and so,whoever uploads 100 contents a day only creates a big mess in the library and sends contents without actually creating anything,imo.

these limits are necessary,so I'm happy that they have finally been implemented.

Unfortunately - submission limits don't really 'hurt' anyone except for 'honest' people...

The east indian/arabic spammers/scammers find different ways - and in fact - I think it was actually ON this forum (or maybe it was in discord) that one east indian BRAGGED about how he was simply getting CHILDREN to give them his "id" (he paid them I think $5) - so he could create MULTIPLE accounts (at that time I think he bragged about having 10 accounts) - and submit that way.

Look @ country of registration. Pakistani/East Indian? Reject - or put severe limits on the account until it has been 'proven'.
Do the same thing CREDIT card companies do. They don't blindly accept ANY transaction for fear of being accused of being "racist". They care about $$$.
And they KNOW its a poor risk to accept certain transactions from certain countries, and/or certain nationalities.

That being said - sadly now a lot have been 'imported' into Canada & the US to run the same types of spam/scam operations... so not 'as' easy - but still doable.

SUPER easy way of stopping the spam/scamming - and yes, it is primarily east indians/pakistanis + several of the arab nations. Of course OTHER people do it too - but in general significantly much less than these particular cultures seeking 'get rich quick' schemes...

Injustice for all · « **Reply #38 on:** May 23, 2025, 08:37 »

yes but stop pointing the finger at any specific culture,spam is done in any part of the world,as you said too.

It depends,there are people who prefer to upload en masse,without thinking about much,and the problem is that this behavior apparently also bears fruit.

a spammer surely earns more than me who tries to dedicate time to the things I do.

just a little while ago I was reading on discord,about a guy who today produced 1000 AI images,already indexed and ready to send.

then the funny thing is that he was complaining because he has a 50% rejection rate!

but did you look at these contents at 100% magnification?you're lucky you have 50% approval!

However,I am completely sure that he earns much more than me,so good for him!

It's still possible that he says 1000 when in fact it's 500,but even 100 in one day is too many imo.

the most I can understand is 50,if someone can produce 50 high quality and saleable contents in a day,in my opinion is a superhero!

luckily there are these limits now!

SuperPhoto · « **Reply #39 on:** May 23, 2025, 09:41 »

Quote

yes but stop pointing the finger at any specific culture,spam is done in any part of the world,as you said too.

Why? You seem to be missing the point. If 95% of your problems are caused by a specific region/culture/etc, why wouldn't you do something about it?
It's like saying 'omfg! bank robbers are people too! Don't call them bank robbers! Call them financially challenged!'

While yes - other people do it as WELL... The MAJORITY is caused by east indian/pakinstani/arabic spammers/scammers.
That's why you have 'nigerian phone scams', and you say dont hear of... 'ukranian phone scams'... Or why people get phone calls from east indians posing as collection agencies/'tax authorities'/credit card companies/etc... and its not usually say... associated with people from barbados... because in general, people from those cultures do those things. there is a reason its called 'culture' - because its a set of habits people associated with it tend to do.

Like if I say "Samurai Warrior" you probably don't think of a black midget samurai, you probably think of a Japanese samurai warrior...
Or if I say "NBA basketball player" (lol while not technically a culture, more of a stereotype) - you probably don't think of 'omfg, those awesome east indian basketball players', but rather black (or sometimes white) basketball players...

Anyways. Yes.

The "ai" makes it SUPER easy for people with absolutely (or virtually) no creative/artistic skills, but with amazing stealing/theft/spam skills, to "compete" with people who do have skills.

Brasilnut · « **Reply #40 on:** May 23, 2025, 10:17 »

It's not by accident that SS has a "high fraud risk" list of countries where new contributors from those IPs must wait at last 90 days until they can receive a payout as well as further checks.

Is this a racist practice? No.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

gnirtS · « **Reply #41 on:** May 23, 2025, 10:46 »

Quote from: Brasilnut on May 23, 2025, 10:17

It's not by accident that SS has a "high fraud risk" list of countries where new contributors from those IPs must wait at last 90 days until they can receive a payout as well as further checks.

Is this a racist practice? No.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

Unfortunately they dont subject those same accounts to human detailed reviews to check for IP theft, spam, AI and so on.

If they did that for Pakistan/Bangladesh they could likely eliminate 85% of IP theft immediately.

angelacat · « **Reply #42 on:** May 23, 2025, 12:33 »

"I do not think Adobe is proffered AI images at this moment, yesterday I upload 10 images around 9 years old an it was approved. I believe it was still more important what is on the images and quality. "

thanks fotoroad - do feel a little reassured.

zeljkok · « **Reply #43 on:** May 23, 2025, 12:33 »

Didn't know about SS "high fraud risk" list. Will share something to a point similar.
I am mod for outdoors Forum in Canada; pretty much like MSG, just for hiking, camping etc.

Last winter someone started posting daily spam, promoting some Microsoft Certification Program. I'd delete post and ban the account, but next day he/she would just create new one and do the same thing. I tracked IP address - always same region of Pakistan. Eventually had to ban range of IP addresses, which solved the problem.

People in that part of the world have very poor living conditions, with little hope of improvement so they resort to Internet which is widely available everywhere. Of course this does not justify the behaviour, but is (one of) underlying reason.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #44 on:** May 23, 2025, 14:44 »

Quote from: Brasilnut on May 23, 2025, 10:17

It's not by accident that SS has a "high fraud risk" list of countries where new contributors from those IPs must wait at last 90 days until they can receive a payout as well as further checks.

Is this a racist practice? No.

Where there is smoke there is fire.

In my opinion,yes,it is racism,and as long as some cultures are treated as such,we will not move forward.

Imo,there are other factors at play here,such as the population size for example.

let's take the case of India,how many are there? I yes...only 1.5 billion!

and of course that the concentration of spammers is higher there,just as the concentration of cooks and plumbers is higher!

there are simply so many!

In my opinion,these limits could have been put in place immediately with AI,It hasn't been done before perhaps for certain reasons.

However,imo,the limits must be low,only in this way does it matter what you produce and not how much you produce,in this way we aim for quality and not quantity.

f8 · « **Reply #45 on:** May 23, 2025, 18:02 »

I am more than okay with limits. But it would be so professional and courteous to send an email saying dear so and so... you have been capped at 50 images a week so choose wisely, reset at the end of the week. I am not a fan of spamming just for the sake of spamming. I also understand rejections. That all said the current situation at Adobe is disrespectful to those of us who actually submit quality. The rejections make no sense at all. In fact nothing lately at Adobe makes any sense at all.

Quite frankly it has become a joke. It is very disheartening to see a once wonderful platform go this direction. My work sells very well on Adobe (and other platforms) and if Adobe wants to roulette reject my work or limit it then that is how the cards fall, not a lot I can do about it. I will make the business decision to focus my effort on platforms that still want my work and platforms that I can benefit from as a business.

zeljkok · « **Reply #46 on:** May 23, 2025, 18:50 »

Quote from: f8 on May 23, 2025, 18:02

But it would be so professional and courteous to send an email saying dear so and so... you have been capped at 50 images a week so choose wisely, reset at the end of the week.

+100. Exactly right. Even if limit is contributor specific. It is calculated by AI; email or post somewhere in your profile, whatever. This can also be automated. But they won't do it. It is inline with their communication style. This is our house, take it or leave it.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #47 on:** May 23, 2025, 20:51 »

If the limits were the same for everyone,it would be easier to know what they are,but since the limits are not the same for everyone and can also change over time,I think it is more difficult to make them known.

the limits change,it depends I believe a lot from the rejections,so if today for example I have a limit of 500 per week (I don't know it's just an example)
in 6 months maybe it's 1000,and then maybe 500 again.

I've had a lot of content rejected lately,then when I go back and look at it calmly and when I'm not tired,I always find something wrong,and I say to myself: "that's why!"😄

then for the OT discussion let me say that there are 2 sides to every coin,everything is like that in life,and in this case,if on one hand a business must protect itself,on the other hand there is discrimination.

this is why having a "high fraud risk" list of countries remains a discriminatory attitude.

for you does the end justify the means?for me no.

The sooner we understand it the sooner we can evolve into something that apparently we don't know yet.

Her Ugliness · « **Reply #48 on:** **Yesterday** at 02:10 »

What upsets me about the limit is not only that we do not know it, but that a factor that plays into it is the rejection rate. This was never a problem for me in the past, my acceptance rate on Adobe was - apart from editorial content where I could never figure out what they accept - 99%.

But now it's over 50% because every second image gets rejected for being "too similar" - and since the similar rule does not apply to our OWN portfolio, but all of the database, I have zero control over it. Just not submitting images that are similar to the ones in my port isn't helping. I cannot check every image I want to submit with 17 million images in their database. So I feel like that's very unfair, because it is nothing that I have control over or nothing that has anything to do with the quality of my content.

The same goes for the free Adobe plan by the way - I factor for qualifying for it is also your rejection rate.

Injustice for all · « **Reply #49 on:** **Yesterday** at 05:29 »

yeah,the "similar" thing is a bit heavy and annoying,hard times for images!

maybe in this case,the end justifies the means!

My rejection rate is about 50%,I suppose the tendency is to approve the best content and also try to reject content that is less marketable in itself,or that is already present in the library.

I'm sure that Adobe is doing it mainly for us,I don't think they're there drinking vodka and laughing at our rejections.

It's obvious to me that if they've applied limits,and if they reject a lot,even for the "similar" ones,they do it because it's necessary.

I don't believe in the theory of "roulette rejection".

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