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Welcome To Stock Contributors.

Adobe Stock customers expect the highest visual and technical quality for use in commercial projects. Emphasis on commercial use.  Read Photo Editing Dos & Don'ts in your Contributor's User Guide. Stock photos are more sellable when in-camera effects & filters are disabled.  Shoot RAW photos if possible. See below for more tips.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.ug.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-submit-distinct-content.html

Good luck.

Welcome to the community 🙂
This happens to a lot of people at the beginning, so don’t worry.

“Quality issues” usually mean small technical problems rather than a bad photo. I’d suggest checking the images at 100% zoom for softness, noise, artifacts, or over-sharpening. Also watch for uneven lighting, blown highlights, and heavy editing.

For the “similar content” rejection, even small differences can still be seen as too similar by reviewers.

Try uploading fewer but stronger images first and compare them with accepted/top images in the same category  it helps a lot.

For the bee image, there is considerable vignetting, and Adobe advises strongly against adding such an effect. The buyer can do that if they prefer to do so.

As for similar content, there is likely a bot that looks keywords and titles that are repeated often throughout the database, and it's possible the image never reached a human moderator.