maybe you should start selling less so maybe you understand that these new review favor first of all those who already earn well with images,like Cobalt,because now more than ever those who already sell well with commercial images are more difficult to reach.

and I'm talking about the review,I didn't question anything else,because I also think that there are definitely things that can be improved.

okay,you don't understand,and no one pays me to sit here trying to make you see reason,so go ahead and complain about everything,without first thinking carefully about why certain choices were made.

I have to agree with the previous comment, you express your thoughts in quite an incoherent manner, really hard to understand what are you trying to say.

I don't think customers have time to endless "refine" or change images. I am sure designers do, for instance to give an image series a consistent look to go with the branding vibe.

But to keep tinkering on a file you download just like that? Many even lack the imagination how an image could be changed.

The current review algo simply does not work and is not serving the customer at all.

But whoever is in charge of this failed project is sticking to it.

Dynamic upload limits, based on review slots is a simple solution for too many files.

Very cheap and it works.

But we are stuck with the roulette chaos until somebody even higher up understands what a mess they have created.

They should call it the "Make istock great again" algo.

3-4 years back I earned 4-5 times more in Shutterstock than that I earned in Adobe stock..

But the things are reversed now...I am earning 2-3 times more in Adobe Stock than Shutterstock...

In these time Adobe Stock increased much in terms of Sales and revenue...and Shutterstock performing very worst with decrease in sales and earnings by 75%...

I found this in the Adobe Community.

This explains a lot,here we are talking about the arrangement of pixels,if a "similar" arrangement is found the content is rejected.

so in a nutshell I really think that with AI images it is very difficult to get approval.

i think that the only way to get approved is to use a lot of generative fill,in order to create arrangements of different pixels,different faces,different things.

I think this applies to real content as well,but I'm not producing real photos at the moment,other than illustrative editorials,so I don't know,I can only rely on other experiences at the moment for real commercial images.

Anyway,I think this can clarify a few things.

I also use plastic wrench https://youtu.be/dGI_whvT3rI?si=2dEr9Jh1BJhZqYpP and works great