Mat?

Quote from: Shuttershock on January 17, 2024, 08:54

I am getting emails daily now from Adobe with submission reviews, so mine have certainly sped right up! Also, the few months of a blip getting 90% rejections appear to have gone and back to normal 95% acceptance.......

Yes, same for me too the recent days. Also strange actually. But, hey, no reason to complain .

For the files you are getting reviewed, how long ago did you submit them?

Are they afraid that there are some type of "bots" that are creating large quantities of (AI?) images and constantly submitting perhaps?

So I don't get it. The inspectors are worried about small details such as pixelation but they accept imagery with obvious major problems like extra hands, and clearly improperly created hands/fingers?
Or have they become much more strict all around?

Illustrative Editorial is not the same as News Editorial. News needs to be honest, not cloned, not edited for content, not deceptive, without adding or removing. There's more, but that's a general statement.

Illustrative Editorial is not the same. I blur and clone out price tags or store markings. I haven't ever cloned out a person, but I don't see why not. IE is about the subject, not about real news or journalist integrity. I think of them as product representations.

(I don't work for Adobe, I'm not an expert, this is just my personal opinion and observation.)

"At Adobe Stock, we define illustrative editorial as conceptual imagery designed to illustrate articles on current events and newsworthy topics. This type of content often features images of real brands and products � like signs on buildings, soda cans, computers, and cars � to convey a story. Illustrative editorial content is made available to Adobe Stock customers for editorial use only.

Illustrative editorial isn�t the same as editorial content, which documents events or incidents that are currently occurring or developing, or that have already occurred. We do not accept traditional editorial content at this time."

https://helpx.adobe.com/si/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html

What you said makes a whole lot of sense. I would like to hear from Mat/Adobe officially on this.

Regarding illustrative editorial requirements for photos on Adobestock. Adobestock does not accept Illustrative editorial images with recognizable people in them.
I understand that if you took an illustrative editorial photo of say the exterior of a store that it would not be accepted if someone happened to be walking by and was in the photo.
I have always assumed that you are not allowed to "photoshop" such person out of the photo and then submit it.
However, in reading the editorial guidelines, it doesn't specifically say that.

So, my question is: are you allowed to remove people from a photo and then submit as illustrative editorial? I am pretty sure the answer is no, but thought I'd ask to be sure.

I see SS dropping in royalties but AS continues to be strong. This is backed up by the "Poll Results".

Editorial images I believe get reviewed more quickly.

I'd love to see Adobe widen their editorial submission guidelines to allow photos with people....and editorial videos for that matter.

Is storyblocks one of those agencies that's hard to get into?
Also are they primarily video?

Just had half my files declined.

It hurts.

Will try to downsize even more for new submissions and make even smaller and more mixed batches.

I will also look at the declined ones and reprocess them. Because I think they are useful files that will sell.

"downsize" ??

I wonder why the size of the psd files gets so large when you start making use of the Generative AI functionality? Seems like they get to 300MB and up pretty quickly for equivalent of 24 Megapixel files.