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March 28, 2025
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Adobe Stock ddmins should get a serious kick in the ass

  • March 28, 2025
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I think the administrators of Adobe Stock should get a serious kick in the ass because lately, they have been rejecting really perfect pictures more and more often. They mindlessly reject half of the images due to quality issues, even though they are from the same session, taken with the same technique and equipment, when they show completely different frames - half of them get rejected, while the other half get accepted. Is this a lottery machine? Seriously? Since Adobe prides itself on manually reviewing and evaluating all photos, supposedly ensuring the highest standards, then they should do it properly. I've seen plenty of terrible images taken with low-quality smartphones get accepted, while outstanding works by skilled photographers get rejected. It's embarrassing;/

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Abambo
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Community Expert
March 29, 2025
  • I have assets from one session, some are good, some are not, so that is not a quality property.
  • I have pictures taken with the same high-end equipment. Some are good, some are bad, so that is not a quality property.
  • I'm a skilled photographer, still I get pictures that do not meeat the quality standards. 

Your may be right. But your argumentation is incorrect.

 

And yes, there are bad assets that get accepted. That happens. It would be more productive to show us one rejected asset. We have seen recently a couple of assets that were OK in out eyes, but got rejected. Before the generative AI flood, this was much less. I remember two assets in the 5 years before they started to accept gererative AI. It seems that the moderator turnover is much bigger, and the quality of the moderators is bad, considering the scrap that gets accepted on the generative AI side.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
March 28, 2025

Without seeing the rejected assets, it's impossible to say.

Maybe they saw a problem that you overlooked. 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 28, 2025

You're not alone. There has clearly been a policy change, and Adobe isn't saying what it was.

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