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Quality issues

Forum|Forum|3 months ago
October 30, 2025
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I check all of my images at 100% on a 27" monitor that is calibrated. The many images that Adobe has rejected they were accepted in other sites such as Shutterstock and Dreamstime, somehow I am skeptical that your reviewer did in fact check carefully each image. It is easy to reject now that the site has grown with many contributors in my opinion.

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Ricky336

Community Expert

Hello,

For what it is worth, I honestly cannot find any quality issues with these shots. Composition, white balance, focus and so on are fine.

Can't tell why it was rejected based on quality. In this case it is just a guessing game!

As the idiom goes - that's the way the cookie crumbles!

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ginor82224189Author

Participating Frequently

Thanks Ricky336,

I try my best to take time and work on every image to bring it to how my eyes saw it when I took the image, and unfortunately I get the feeling some reviewers accept them and some rejects them. Cheers.

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vali_5965

Participant

I wanted to express my extreme disappointment with the current state of the Adobe Stock contributor experience. Everything has changed for the worse over the past two months. The moderation process is slow, strict, and frustrating. It's a sad change from when the platform was a reliable income source. If things don't improve, I will have to move all my efforts to other stock agencies.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

You're preaching to the choir here. This is a user-to-user community. Nobody here works for Adobe.

Contact Contributor Support directly.

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/contact

Also read your Contributor User Guide about 'Similar Content.'

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

Adobe sees no problem with their review process. So from their perspective, there's nothing to fix.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

RALPH_L

Community Expert

Let us see an example.

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ginor82224189Author

Participating Frequently

That is true? But what is the point you making towards the main title?

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Are you talking about @RALPH_L 's signature? That's all it is. It's not a comment on your assets.

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

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Shutterstock & Dreamstime are totally different services, They also pay lower royalty fees. You can't compare Stock with other image services due to different customer bases & different quality standards.

Show us 1 or 2 of your rejected images & the reasons Stock refused them.

We'll provide feedback about why we think they weren't accepted and possibly how to fix them.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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ginor82224189Author

Participating Frequently

To anyone that responded to my inquiry on the quality issues, I uploaded ten images for you to see that I found on the rejection piles from Adobe. I have many images of real estate for example that several have been acepted and many that where rejected for property release. I have a feel that it depends on the individual reviewer at times which I found on other sites as well. I edit all of my images at a minimum to preserve its originality the way I saw each image at the time it was taken.

Jill_C

Community Expert

This image has chromatic aberration.

This image has an IP issue

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Jill_C

Community Expert

Acceptance on other stock sites is no indication that Adobe will also find them of sufficient quality. There have been increasing reports of unjustified quality rejections; however, these days virtually all of my images are being accepted. I've had only a few quality rejections lately, and in each case I was able to re-edit and get them accepted. If you would like to receive feedback from the Community members (fellow Contributors) as to the possible reasons for rejection, upload a few of your rejects here.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer