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April 17, 2025
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No explanation behind the photos being rejected is poor quality on Adobe

No reason behind being rejected within seconds. Need a reason. What about the quality. What about 6000px in width is not good quality. You accepted other photos with no issues. Need a better critique. 

Jill_C
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Community Expert
April 18, 2025

Your image, IMG_9067.JPG, has an underexposed sky, lacks sharp focus and has chromatic aberration (purple  fringing) among the tree branches.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Participant
April 22, 2025

The biggest issue I’m having is that I haven’t posted anything from Japan, and the one image I did post from Japan was rejected with the excuse of ‘similar images.’ Also, they’ll deny a photo, and then if I wait three days and reupload it, it gets approved. Adobe needs to be more consistent.

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Nancy OShea
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April 24, 2025
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I haven’t posted anything from Japan, and the one image I did post from Japan was rejected with the excuse of ‘similar images.’

By @thefladhammer

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Other Contributors have submitted photos from all over the world, including Japan.

Compare your work with Stock's current inventory before you submit. 

 

 

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
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April 17, 2025
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No reason behind being rejected within seconds. Need a reason. What about the quality.


By @thefladhammer

Quality issues is a good reason.

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What about 6000px in width is not good quality. 


By @thefladhammer

The pixel size is not and never was a quality criteria. It's a physical fact. 

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You accepted other photos with no issues.


By @thefladhammer

Maybe they should have been rejected? It's not that I say that they should have been rejected, but it's a common argument from contributors who say that because this asset has been accepted, that asset needs to be accepted too. Without seeing the asset, we can't say what flaws may or may not be in the picture. But acceptance is not a right.

quoteNeed a better critique. 

By @thefladhammer

Well, either you check critically your pictures, or we can check one or two of them. Have a look into the critiques on this forum. You'll find a lot of inspiration in how to check a picture.

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Jill_C
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April 17, 2025

There is much more to image quality than pixels and resolution. Upload your rejected image here if you want feedback from the community.

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daniellei4510
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April 17, 2025

"We" are not Adobe, but contributors like yourself. If you want us to take a look, post two or three of the rejected image(s) here,

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April 18, 2025
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Jill_C
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Jill_CCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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April 18, 2025

Your image, IMG_9067.JPG, has an underexposed sky, lacks sharp focus and has chromatic aberration (purple  fringing) among the tree branches.

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Jill C., Forum Volunteer
yamato713108855
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April 17, 2025

Do you check these requirements?

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.html

 

Your image needs to be enlarged to 100% and checked closely.

Adjust brightness, color, level, cropping, etc. using Lightroom or Photoshop before submitting it.

If you post your image on the community, we'll check to see what the problem is.

 

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Participant
April 17, 2025

The apparent arbitrary rejection of submissions within a short time span makes me suspicious that humans are no longer conducting the reviews.  Likely being done through an AI tool or algorithm.

 

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yamato713108855
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April 17, 2025

It seems like the program checks it once before the operator checks it.

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