While there may be vastly more images made available for sale via AI, where will the demand for all those extra images come from?.....

Thanks all....I resolved my issue.

I do exactly that, I test them against an alternate solid color layer, usually a bright red, sometimes other colors.

I also always isolated in photoshop manually.

I still have two pngs in the queue, but they have been there for over two months. If I do them on simple white they get accepted in 5-10 days.

I would like to do more pngs, but a waiting time of months is too frustrating. So I focus on normal on white now.

Oh, I  mis-understood, I thought the issue was rejections not inspection time. I think for me, both jpg's and png's take equivalently agonizingly long to get inspected.

I guess the good news for traditional contributors is that the huge growth in AI content doesn't seem to have had a proportional impact in reduced sales of traditional content. Of course without adjusting for overall sales growth, that may not necessarily be true.

As a side note, AI content is kind of funny...it is really a collaboration between the artist/prompter and the AI tool. The fact that everyone is using the same small set of AI tools in some sense leads to a lot of "similars"

FWIW, I just had a few non-editorial photos reviewed within a week or so. Maybe they are starting to catch up?....or maybe it is random...time will tell.

Quote from: wds on October 26, 2024, 21:40

Quote from: yuriy on October 26, 2024, 19:20

are you people also filling in your earnings in the forum poll?  is there any way to see how many people actually answer it?  judging by the wild swings i don't think its very many people and not every month but i've been trying to remember to do it when the istock figures arrive every month.

If you hover your cursor over entry (e.g. "Adobestock") it shows how many people responded and the rating number.

this is all i see when i hover, not the number of votes but just the position in the graph

I meant hovering over the column at the right of this webpage

I still have some old pictures to aprove, but the new uploads are reviewed now within max 3 days, most of them within 48 hours, some even within less than 24 hours. yesterday I uploaded a bunch of pictures (60) and they are reviewed already.

Are the "max 3 days" items non-editorial non-AI photographs?

Like I said before, I do not trust either party. I tend to focus on how I can help those around me in need. I don't expect the gov. to come and help in any way so I am not frustrated or dissappointed. The community respones is amazing and needs are being covered well! Focus on what matters and ignore the rest, amazing progress is being made by the people without the gov. that is a good thing! I can share so many stories of people stepping up and givng all they have to help others. Bye bye to the gov. we shall survive and in good fashion.

What would you suggest as a good way to donate monetarily?

Quote from: Jaggy on September 27, 2024, 06:27

I don't bother submitting to Adobe any more. The review process takes far too long and the rejections for "quality issues" are a joke. I've better things to do with my time than waste it on a lengthy and inconsistent process.

It is the inconsistencies for "quality issues" that I find most bothersome. The second most bothersome is that most of my editorial work is immediately accepted and there are absolutely no "quality issues" with those images. I can deal with the wait in inspection times. It's the batch rejections that I know are more than fine backed by the fact they are accepted at a few other noted agencies and the content does sell on those noted agencies. It's the baseless and senseless batch rejections that make me feel I too am wasting my time.

Agreed, and it is the fact that you may have to wait 8 weeks for this to happen that makes it significantly worse. If you had to wait a few days and could possibly edit and resubmit, it wouldn't be nearly as troublesome.

Quote from: jar on July 25, 2024, 10:25

Quote from: Artist on July 25, 2024, 10:20

Should we expect firefly bonus this year?

i see copies of my best seller renderings all over Adobe, even same title and keywords. 

I agree with you. My bestsellers also got copied by a dozen other accounts with exact same keywords and descriptions. With current AI it is that easy and it shows that copies are made by AI. My sales are significantly down and it�s disappointing. I don�t know what to do about it either, since copies are not identical, but close enough (nope, I will not post my bestsellers here so more people will copy them, but they were selling 30+ times per day before copies appeared, now it�s 2-3 sales only)

How did you find the copycat files?

When you thought Adobe couldn�t get any lower due to the 10 week plus review durations and length of wait for payments they are re-reviewing existing content and removing it after previously approving it :-) I had an email today removing one image due to the re-reviews taking place. Wouldn't suprise me if they were spending more time removing mages than approving new images.

That sounds a bit scary. If you don't mind my asking, was it a technical issue or an intellectual property issue that cause them to remove an image?

This also highlights another aggravating aspect of rejections....generic non-specific and sometimes misleading reasons for rejection.