all of my uploads are being rejected

​@Nancy OShea 

Nancy,

Your response seems to assume you know more about my account than I do.

I submit to Adobe every week and have been a contributor for over eight years. Over the past year, this same pattern has happened about five times. My normal acceptance rate on batches of 60–100 images is well over 95%. Then, without warning, I'll have a batch where roughly 95% is rejected. I resubmit those same files without meaningful changes, and they are accepted at 100%.

That isn't speculation—it's my actual experience.

I'm not claiming Adobe rejects 95% of all submissions, nor did I say a single reviewer examined every file. I'm describing what has happened with my submissions. Those are two very different things.

As for your comments about customer complaints, audits, and possible account deactivation, those seem misplaced. If Adobe's own reviewers subsequently accept the exact same files at a 100% acceptance rate, it's difficult to argue that the original rejections were all justified or that the files somehow pose a quality risk.

You may find my experience "absurd," but dismissing someone else's repeated experience because it doesn't fit your assumptions doesn't make it any less real. I've been contributing long enough to know the difference between a weak submission and an inconsistent review.

Nancy:

I have always loved Adobe. I am actually sad to be leaving, however, maybe in a year I’ll try it again, after some reorganization at the company which is being worked on, gets straightened out.

I have a legal and business background, so I realize CEOs come and go. What saddens me is the lack of loyalty to so many contributors who helped to build Adobe, that are now being rejected. But I guess the concept of loyalty has been long gone in this country.

Best to you, as well.

Nancy O’Shea:

I find your response to my comments, insulting. I never said because I have a DSLR camera my photos should be accepted!  Really? I have been submitting to Adobe for years with everything being accepted. I have been shooting since I was 22 years old and I am 74! 
You are wrong about the acceptance rate and there are thousands of people saying this.

In addition, Wall Street has reported that Adobe is in financial straits right now due to the CEO leaving and the acceptance of AI produced photographs that are coming in like wildfire, likely by many people who are not actually photographers.

I have joined six other stock agencies and all of my work is being accepted. I will no longer contribute to Adobe and obviously Adobe could care less.

What a shame and how short-sighted of Adobe.

You should temper your comments to people before insulting them. Maybe instead of telling people to read the contributor guidelines you should start reading the comments that are going on currently all over the Internet regarding Adobe’s latest behaviors.

@christycollects 

On June 11, Stock updated its Contributor User Guide. I highly recommend that everyone give it a thorough read. Many new things were added. 

​@Julien McRoberts Photo,

You’re assertion that Stock is rejecting 95% is absurd. The math doesn’t add up. Stock adds about 2 million assets to its collection per week. Those new assets are coming from somewhere.  It would be physically impossible to examine 40 million assets per week to sustain 2 million approvals.

Maybe a Reviewer has an off day. But assets are randomly assigned to the next available Reviewer. It’s highly improbable that one person examined all your assets and much more likely that multiple reviewers saw your work & found reasons for refusal. 

Resubmitting without revision could come back to bite you later with customer complaints, refund requests or when Stock conducts an internal audit. Periodically, Stock purges content from their database that doesn’t meet current acceptance standards. And accounts with multiple complaints get flagged for possible deactivation.

​@christycollects,

Picture quality doesn’t begin & end with equipment. If that were true then everyone with a 4K/HD camera would be a commercial artist.  Successful Stock photos are the result of proper planning & preparation behind the camera, and good choices in post-editing.

“Great photos are made, not taken.”

~ Ansel Adams

Related links from Stock’s Contributor User Guide:

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/photo-submission-overview.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/technical-legal-requirements-photo-submission.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/photo-editing-best-practices.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/content-moderation/common-reasons-content-refusal.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/content-moderation/quality-technical-standards-reasons-content-refusal.html

Hope that helps.

You are not alone.
There seems to be at least one really nasty or lazy auditor who finds it easier to reject the majority of photos rather than do their job. I submit images at least 3 times a week with a 95% acceptance rate (have been selling stock for years so I know quality images) and occasionally I get the person who rejects 95% of the submission even from a same shoot that got accepted the day before. 

Yes, it's beyond annoying and a waste of our valuable time but I go back and resubmit all of them a few weeks later and find they typically ALL get accepted. It’s even more gratifying when I see immediate sales from them. I have written to support to see if their criteria has changed and nicely addressed this issue but all I got was basically a non answer. 

Don’t give up - resubmit them. 

Clearly, Adobe does not want anymore stock photos, as they are totally saturated. Rather than shut down their site in terms of contributors for a while, they are choosing to reject perfectly good photos. I believe this is shortsighted. I am no longer going to contribute to them. I too, I’ve been a contributor for years and have all high-quality photos shot with high resolution cameras. it simply isn’t fair to claim the photo was rejected for quality concerns when clearly there were none. This is unacceptable.

Adobe is having management issues and it shows.

The image is good but, I do see one mistake. The light on her arm is wrong. Her arm should be in shadow.

You are not alone, many contributors work very hard to upload high quality asset that adhere all AS guideline, but still get rejected, even your uploaded assets are better than existing asset on AS.

For example, a buyer had asked refund for an AI asset sold via below portfolio:

https://stock.adobe.com/de/contributor/200498799/cleverstock?load_type=author&prev_url=detail

You can see many AI asset in this portfolio are low quality. Those assets  will be rejected immediately as per current moderator's review standard. 

We lots of contributors are working very hard to provide high-quality asset to be approved, but it is frustrating to see low-quality AI assets still available for sell without cleaning/ removal.

This is a common complaint for the last few weeks. My reject rates for real photographs (which I've been submitting for 8 years) have soared from ~5% to 40%, so I've decided to stop submitting new work for now until we find out why Adobe has made this change to somewhat arbitrarily reject new submissions.

In the case of the sample you've supplied, I'd say that when zoomed to 100%, focus on the face is soft, and the image appears oversaturated.