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May 12, 2025
Question

Feels like No curators looked at my stuff

  • May 12, 2025
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Guys, I am a professional photographer who posted recently several high quality photos, which are sharp, with no logos, faces ect. I am curator myself for another stock, so I even know what to share and how the content should look like. All of my photos were rejected due to technical issues even they have none. Just help me understand - do you even guys curate the content or you reject it for some reason automatically because you have a bad day? I feel like there is no reason for the content to be rejected by this reason.

 

Thanks

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Legend
May 12, 2025

I'm sorry - but the curators/moderators are almost always right.

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

They're not necessarily "right" as we've learned from the last few months of dramatically increased unjustified rejections; however, it is true that they have the final say and there is no way to dispute their findings.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
jacquelingphoto2017
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

Hi @anastaziet85725981 ,

I'm sorry to hear about your experience. You are not addressing Adobe, but a community of contributors as yourself. Many of us are experiencing 100% refusals for technical issues as well as similar. Many of whom are experiencing 100% technical issue refusals now, used to receive up to 90% acceptance. Since the introduction of AI everything has changed causing many of us not getting our work on the Adobe website. You can try other platforms. Most that are refused here are accepted elsewhere. 

In any case many of the refusals are genuine, hence it would be good for you to post about 3 of your refused files here for us to see.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

Ricky336
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

Hello,

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.... Just help me understand - do you even guys curate the content or you reject it for some reason automatically because you have a bad day? I feel like there is no reason for the content to be rejected by this reason.

 

Thanks


By @anastaziet85725981

 

You actually are not talking to Adobe Staff in this forum; only fellow contributors. We don't have any say in what gets accepted or rejected.

As mentioned, if you want, you could post a couple of examples for others to see what you mean. Rejections won't have anything to do with anyone having a bad hair day!😊

And, it would seem they are indeed curating the content even more carefully than before.

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

Submit a couple of the rejected images here and we can take a look. Adobe's standards have seemingly even more strict than usual over the past couple of months.

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