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August 5, 2025
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Answer to rejected pictures

  • August 5, 2025
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Lately, a lot of my pictures got rejected and I am very curious what would be wrong with these? It looks like Adobe Stock is rejecting photos containing focus on specific parts of that particular picture as for example the one with the flowers attached. Comments regarding the rejection are way too incomplete to find out what is really wrong. Can someone give me some tips and tricks? Thanks in advance!

Correct answer RALPH_L

3124 has underexposed shadows, the writings on the boat must be reoved, and the object on the right side should be cropped out.

3286 needs sharpening and the white sky needs to be replaced.

9928 underexposed shadows and some overexposed highlights on the leaf and feathers.

3730 is overexposed sky and you are right, the focus is not the subject. The skyline should have been the point of interest.

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Abambo
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August 5, 2025

You should give us the rejection reason for each one of the assets. Adobe attaches a reason to each of their rejections. The heading is enough.

 

Your first has exposure issues (Quality issues), besides IP issues (different refusal).

In addition, you overprocessed the image (washed out colours) and you did not correct some of the lense issues (upper right of the image). The picture itself has a difficult exposure situation, with the darker surroundings and the light middle area. 

 

Your second also has an exposure issue, with the overexposed sky and rocks, and the structureless boat. Noise reduction has eaten up details in the asset. 

 

The parrot has motion blur. The ISO is quite high for your camera, but there is astonishingly a lot of detail in the image. 

 

Your last is simply out of focus. You focussed on the flowers, but that is not the main subject that the people see. They are looking at the skyline. The sky has blown out areas and the bokeh is not natural. It looks to me as if you have used kind of gaussian blur on the background... 

 

The refusal text is never targeted to your precise asset. It's a standard text that is repeated for each refusal, and just enumerates dome of the probable errors. You can safely ignore that text. Focussing on it may even be misleading. 

 

 

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
RALPH_L
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RALPH_LCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
August 5, 2025

3124 has underexposed shadows, the writings on the boat must be reoved, and the object on the right side should be cropped out.

3286 needs sharpening and the white sky needs to be replaced.

9928 underexposed shadows and some overexposed highlights on the leaf and feathers.

3730 is overexposed sky and you are right, the focus is not the subject. The skyline should have been the point of interest.

robinva99Author
Participant
August 18, 2025

Good evening Ralph, thank you for your answer. Do I have to remove all text, even if it is no logo (like the text on the picture in the appendix)?

For 3286: why do they expect to replace a white sky? Sometimes the sky is just white like it is blue. Same thing for 3730. Besides, on 3730, I like to color outside the lines and not take a picture 'as it should be', but I get it is difficult on a platform like Adobe Stock. 

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 18, 2025

Adobe Stock customers expect the highest visual and technical quality for use in commercial projects.  Emphasis on commercial use. 

 

Pay particular attention to sections on Photo DOs & DON'Ts and Property Infringement in your Stock Contributor User Guide.

Before submitting, compare your best work with current inventory to ensure that 1) Stock needs it and 2) yours is better than what Stock is selling.  

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=boat+on+beach  2.8 MILLION results

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 5, 2025

In the first one, you need to remove the logo from the boat. 

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.