Today I had the majority of the files accepted, including all illustrations, which is great.

I reprocessed the declined files by upsizing with stable ai instead of gigapixel and they look a lot cleaner at 100/200%.
Will now post process in Photoshop, downsize a lot more and hope to get them live.

Review times have improved, the batch today was uploaded less than 20 days ago (photos) and just a few days for the illustrations.

I hope Adobe improves their inflow management / review times. Adobe is a juggernaut of a software company. If they can bring the queue down to a week...

...Petapixel will not write an article about this amazing achievement...it will simply be normal

What could also help is if artists could see clearly how many upload slots they have left and an estimate for review time.

You can also add a factor that shows the current acceptance rate over the last 300 files and make that number relevant for review times and upload slots.

90% decline?...your upload slots are drastically reduced and your review time is much longer...so you have the opportunity to think more clearly about what you are doing...

Obviously add a factor based on producer experience...but if you give the artists a really useful visual interface and make their review time dependent on their acceptance rate...I think the queue will clear itself up very quickly.

Many agencies have systems like this, nobody has to reinvent the wheel.

A year ago it was understandable that it was all overwhelming. But for such a gigantic software company to struggle with regulating inflow/review time is difficult to understand.

There are so many advantages to having a short queue, especially for all the newbies who are finding their way around stock.

Also for experienced producers, if the queue is a week, you can send in test batches from a series with different processing styles, see what Adobe prefers, then do the rest.

If you have to wait 8 weeks, it is better to upload 100 files a day and just see what sticks. Maybe even 200 a day, just to be on the safe side...

Cobalt,
I also started get higher than $1 sales lately often. I didn�t have $1.34 sales before� at all. So something must of changed� if Adobe didn�t raise prices, then may be we hit some kind off �next price level?� However, I�m not up to 10,000 yet and past 1,000, so that�s also probably not it. I still get $3.30 and even $22 sales at times, as well as lots of $0.34 sales.

Some of my files are accepted in the same day and some sit there for months� I deleted them and resubmitted them with new keywords and some got accepted. I also resubmitted some as illustrations and they also got accepted. Once I uploaded a png with no alpha and until I corrected that, I didn�t get anything accepted for 2+ months.

Sometimes 2 out of 10 gets accepted, others are are rejected for �quality � yet they are the same (like a blooming tree branch) I guess, they just have enough of blooming tree branches, so they rejected most of them. Since I also noticed that generic stuff that anyone can produce is sitting in queue for months. More unique or niche stuff gets accepted fast.

As for sizes, I keep my sizes as is. Most of stock photos are used now are for web or social, no? So x4 upscale in MJ should give you a 20mb+ size and you need only 4mb + to submit to Adobe. Why do you need to upscale it in Topaz or Adobe Zoom? (What am I missing?)

Where can you check your acceptance rate and rank as a seller? Thanks in advance for reply, can�t figure out where to find tjose

I do not think Adobe shows you your acceptance rate, you have to keep track of that yourself.
But your rank you can see on the upper left corner of your dashboard. You have to select a timeframe (week, month, year, all time)  from the drop down menu and then it will show you your rank for that time.

Quote from: Mifornia on January 08, 2024, 22:36

Where can you check your acceptance rate and rank as a seller? Thanks in advance for reply, can�t figure out where to find tjose

I do not think Adobe shows you your acceptance rate, you have to keep track of that yourself.
But your rank you can see on the upper left corner of your dashboard. You have to select a timeframe (week, month, year, all time)  from the drop down menu and then it will show you your rank for that time.

weird -  it shows rank for lifetime & this week, but not for month or this year

do we know how many users are?  my rank this week is about 9000 - month or year would be more useful

lifetime won't change much, week is too random