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How many megapixels is your camera capable of?

Under the most ideal conditions, you might get decent results. 

All things equal, better equipment yields better results.

The small sensor, as well as lack of any control over aperture, shutter speed and ISO make it very unlikely that you will be able to capture images of acceptable quality for stock photography from a "cheap cellphone camera". In addition to a decent camera and photography skills, you would also need to learn basic editing software, e.g. Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop, to enhance photos prior to uploading them. There is quite a learning curve ahead of you to be able to produce images suitable for sale on Adobe Stock.

Photos taken with smartphone cameras show more noise - depending on the lighting conditions - when enlarged.

Other problems occur when you save in JPEG format.

 Therefore for stock, you have to be more careful in what subjects you take. Smartphones are great for social media and sharing with friends and family, etc, but they are not really designed for stock photography.

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@azukiajorka.354725 wrote:

Hi admin, 

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BTW, this forum is mostly populated by fellow contributors.

As @George_F says, any camara is accepted, but the pictures from the cheapest camera are vetted with the same quality requirements than the most expensive one. Adobe Stock is very fussy in terms of quality, and newcomers can get quite frustrated with the rejections. 

As a rejection is not a bad sign, and does not necessarily mean that the picture is bad photography you still need to follow some basic rules.

And as Geoge talked about it: A long term rejection rate of less than 50% should be your aim. 

If you are new to stock, you should consider these resources: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/tutorials.html
Please read the contributor user manual for more information on Adobe stock contributions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html
See here for rejection reasons: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
and especially quality and technical issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

In general cell phones aren't great tools for stock photography as they are pretty limited in quality and they aren't able to control certain settings like aperture.

But Adobe accepts great photos regardless of camera and if you have some shots that meet the high quality standards Adobe has in place then feel free to submit them.  Realistically the worst that will happen is they will be rejected.  If I remember right there is an acceptance rate to stay above to continue submitting, but I can't remember exactly what that number is or where I read about it.

Good luck 🙂