A somewhat below-average week, it has been extremely quiet since Thursday...

Same here, did not work with chrome - logged in on Edge and everything is fine.
Seems to be the cookie set by Chrome...

You both are doing very well - nice to see

I had a terrible week, Saturday had 3 Dl - the complete week is "123 Dl, pos 3.560, RpD $0,76"
(By the way, out of my about 270 easter images I had exactly 1 Dl this month...)

After my AI work I am 95% back to camera stuff... with the actual chaos in rejections you have to ask yourself whether uploads AS still makes sense at all and I don't see that at the moment.

Quote from: MPfoto71 on April 12, 2025, 08:37

Quote from: cobalt on April 12, 2025, 04:40

In the discord the removed files include simple color backgrounds that supposedly break adobes terms and other weird examples.
What is the point of that?

In my case 36 files were removed and the example image shown is a background of an old wall with some paint and structure on it.
(see screenshot)
This does not make any sense at all :-?

Content isn't just being removed for compliance reasons, but also because it is similar to other content you have submitted.

I had one removed yesterday for 'similar' reasons, and was quite cross, as the only other image I'd submitted from this location was quite different. However, when i checked a little more carefully, it was removed because I had accidentally submitted, (and had approved), the same image twice over.

Yes, on the one hand it is about similar content within the Adobe collection and on the other hand about content that supposedly breaks the guidelines.
And I don't have a fundamental problem with the fact that the guidelines need to be adapted from time to time.

The problem I see here is that we contributors are left completely in the dark. There is no reasonable statement about which images were removed and why.
Just a link to your own rejections, which you can't sort - in my case there are more than 10,000 files in there (which is not surprising with 64,000 online files).
I have absolutely no chance of finding out which other 35 images have been removed, because I have no search filter and the images are not sorted at the top of the rejection list, but are sorted by upload date... which is �completely nonsensical�, to put it mildly. You do that if you don't want the contributor to be able to find it

To put it briefly and directly:
-> no problem that you have to customize and maybe also clear something away sometimes
-> a big problem is the lack of transparency and the complete lack of communication with the contributors (who ultimately make the business possible, at least so far)

And we'd rather not even talk about the currently incomprehensible rejections :-)

On Discord there have been several instances of people complaining about images that have been removed, but I have found that the exact same images are still online in their portfolios with different file numbers. So for anyone wondering why a file has been removed please check your portfolio and see if you have a duplicate of it still online.

Good advice - I just tried that once and didn't find the image from my post in the AdobeStock portfolio, so it wasn't a complete duplicate.

What I found in the search are such images that at least explain the deletion of �similar� images:

Example 1:
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/texture-of-old-rustic-wall-covered-with-gray-and-blue-stucco-multilayers-of-old-paint-on-the-wall-textured-background-selective-focus/886762746
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/texture-of-old-rustic-wall-covered-with-gray-and-blue-stucco-multilayers-of-old-paint-on-the-wall-textured-background-selective-focus/886762672
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/texture-of-old-rustic-wall-covered-with-gray-and-blue-stucco-multilayers-of-old-paint-on-the-wall-textured-background-selective-focus/886762924

Example 2:
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/close-up-of-concrete-and-brick-wall-cracks-in-the-wall-selective-focus/991545887
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/close-up-of-concrete-and-brick-wall-cracks-in-the-wall-selective-focus/991545827
- https://stock.adobe.com/de/images/close-up-of-concrete-and-brick-wall-cracks-in-the-wall-selective-focus/991545804

The fact that such clearly recognizable duplicates are still included is very strange - but the deletion is yet to come.

The process is still running and today on Saturday another 7 pictures disappeared from my portfolio and I have no idea which ones they are

Thanks -  made my day

Opted out immediately

I am sure I am blind, but can you help me where to find that ppt-out switch?

Trying to find it for about 10min now, but cannot find the contributor setttings... pretty sure its time to look for some glasses

Edit:
Found the contributor settings - they were scrolled out of the window bottom left.
But there is no opt-out option for the unlimited subscription in my account - just:
- Image licensing
- Video licensing
- Image data licensing
- Video data licensing

That is great to hear. Not surre I ever had that on adobe.
my rank is now correct at 3390

It seems something is changing in "the algo"... again... hopefully for the better

dropping, dropping, dropping
now pos 1820

Not a good week here too... especially the friday is very slow.
Some Video sales made my RpD look better...

Plus - it is strange, it seems like there is almost a 'max # of weekly downloads' per account... like - even though I did a lot more work, the downloads kind of just fluctuate within a certain range, not really going up, and not really going down overall. It seems to have been like that for about the last 1.5 years within the same 'range'.

That's really interesting that you mention that. I've also been watching the figures very closely for a good 2 years and have had exactly the same thought.
It's probably just a classic �conspiracy thought�, but whenever I exceeded 150dl per week after a while, there was always a dip to around 110dl per week. The last two spontaneous slumps were at the end of March�24 and now in December�24.

But we will probably never understand the very complex relationships between world events, the Adobe search algorithm, internal changes and customer wishes :-)

That's why I'm now dumping images into the account with the �big bucket� and trying to keep the quality as high as possible (the rejection rate suddenly went up from 10% to 30% a good week ago) and then I'll see what happens if I only upload camera images for a while (like 2-3 years ago).
In any case, the hourly wage remains low ;-)

Since I completely changed my workflow for AI images (exactly 3 weeks ago), I have created, edited, tagged and finally scaled 9,300 images - the only thing I still do manually is select which images to remove. Otherwise such a quantity would not be feasible.

This is the final attempt to get the account forward, if it doesn't work over mass, then AI is completely overcrowded - last year I lost about 30 weekly downloads, although I had about 13,000 accepted files in 2024.
Now it �has� to go up, otherwise it's no use anymore

PS: and in the meantime I already have the first downloads from the uploads of the last 3 weeks - so it could be that it works.

I had about 60 violations in one email today - my favourite:

3D-Illustration of a Vatican City Flag - Realistic Waving Fabric (Raster)
�   This content violates our policies on sexual content.

You could ask yourself whether they have information that I might not have ;-)

You have really good figures - I'm delighted :-)

For me it's 118DL so far this week (still far away from the avg. 160 per week 1 year ago) - still not good, especially considering my upload volume at the moment.