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Sep 16, 2025 10:13 AM UTC
Question

Onion on White Background Approved, My Unique PNG Rejected

I uploaded this attched transparent PNG. It is unique, and i believe adobe does not have or niether i do have this kind of content but it got rejected as “similar content.” Yet I see many simple images on Adobe Stock (like onions or strawberries on white backgrounds) are being approved. Why are mine rejected while these get accepted?

 

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Nancy OShea
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Sep 16, 2025 10:16 PM UTC

What has this Mobile Phone UI got to do with Onions? They're unrelated.

 

Mobile Phone UI has over 1 MILLION results. And most are submitted as Vector Sets, not a single, pixel-based PNG. 

As a customer, I'm more inclined to buy a Vector Set. It gives me more options for more than one project. Just saying...

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=mobile+ui

 

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Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
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Sep 16, 2025 10:36 AM UTC

8.png is not an oinion. And it is childish to assume that if one asset from a different contributor has been accepted, your asset also needs to get accepted. To the contrary: the similar rejection explicitly says that there are similar assets in the database. 

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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Sep 16, 2025 10:58 AM UTC

I did not said my attached file is onion. I said someone just recently uploaded Onion on white background and it is approved. And my attached file is a unique content . It is rejected by stating similar content. So i dont know what is happening 

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Abambo
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Sep 17, 2025 12:24 AM UTC

Well, your wording was confusing not only to me, but also to others, when I read the comments here correctly. If you check the forum here, you will find multiple threads on the "similar rejection" issue. And no thread will provide you with a set of instructions on how best to avoid this situation. We are all confused about how this refusal gets triggered.

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Jill_C
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Sep 16, 2025 10:22 AM UTC

I'm not sure whether there are images similar to yours, but I see quality issues in the image. It could also have been rejected on the similarity of title and keywords.

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Jill C., Forum Volunteer
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Sep 16, 2025 10:56 AM UTC

You are right but still in recent upload someone uploaded onion on white background and it has approved. It should fall in similar content rejection. I am uploading unique content and it is getting rejected as similar content .

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Abambo
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Sep 17, 2025 12:26 AM UTC
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You are right but still in recent upload someone uploaded onion on white background and it has approved. It should fall in similar content rejection. I am uploading unique content and it is getting rejected as similar content .


By @theartcreatore

We all experience this issue, and no one has currently a solution. Adobe is convinced that they are doing a good job, so be prepared to live with this refusal in the future.

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer