Photos Not Accepted for Similiarity, Despite Being Completely Unique??

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
November 9, 2025
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I've uploaded a set of photos I took the other week to Adobe Stock, however it's flagged two as being too similar to other photos on the site. However this just isn't true whatsoever - I've attached both images.

I can't figure out a way to get this reviewed manually or anything. What can I do?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I think this would have been otherwise rejected for quality reasons. Both images are too hazy and lack sufficient details for commercial use.

That said, you're competing with over 77 million trees in Stock inventory. It's one of the most commonly represented subjects along with flowers, plants, clouds & sunsets.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=tree

If you decide to re-submit, try using less common keywords, titles & descriptions.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-submit-distinct-content.html

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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ReeceM50Author

Participant

Thank you, I'll try to reupload with different keywords etc.

On the point of quality I have to say I disagree. There may be 70 million images of trees, but you won't find a single one that looks the same as mine..

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fandom_5908

Participant

I agree, a lot has changed in the acceptance and approval of works over the past 1.5-2 months, and everything is for the worse; this is very upsetting, if before I could upload 200-300 unique ones for verification at once!Now it’s only 2-3 a day, it’s very sad, and it’s been very disappointing lately

daniellei4510

Community Expert

" I could upload 200-300 unique ones for verification at once!"

And others were submitting 10,000 a week. There had to be a breaking point sooner or later.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.

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ZALEZPHOTO

Inspiring

Beautiful shots! Your shots probably got flagged by AI... no one knows what the initial process of selection being used today, or how it wil change tomorrow.

Can you share what titles you used for these photos and how you maximized words for them?

Let me put it this way... In my opinion Adobe wants these photos. You need to overcome the automatic (AI) preselection.

What Ralph suggests about changing the titles and keywords is on point. Do that and also wait a few days before you resubmit.

Good Luck!

Francisco ZALEZPHOTO