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February 10, 2023
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Hey Guys, have read many Posts here about quality issues. Just a question, all my pics got rejected. Is it because of the depth of field or the editing? I guess adobe wants to have clean images ? Because i think my pictures are quite cool, but somehoew none of them got accepted:(

Troubleshooting

Correct answer George_F

Keep in mind that a rejection from Adobe doesn't mean the photo is bad, but rather it doesn't meet the criteria they've set for a useful commercial asset. You aren't wrong that creative artistic decisions are sometimes considered a technical flaw by Adobe.

While looking through your photos in general, I noticed on the Histograms that there isn't a lot of info in the midtones, most of the info of the photo is in the shadow and highlight areas. The brights are too bright and the darks are too dark to essentially, and they could use some balancing out with exposure adjustments. A few of the photos had areas that were a bit soft on focus and could use some sharpening.

The mandarin photo had some artefacts in the shadow areas.

In Wandern 26 von 12, what I suspect is your backpack is visible in the corner and very blurry and there is something else very blurry in the photo.

I didn't look at them all in depth so there may be more. Make sure to inspect photos at between 100% - 200% before submitting, the reviewers are definitely going to do this while assessing your photos.

Good luck with future submissions 🙂

Henrik Heigl

Community Expert

Hi,

as already mentioned most of the pictures are with fog, against the sun, blown out highlights, etc.
Have in mind that those pictures are used for commercials, etc. and there are other quality standards in place.

Before you submit, please review the submission guidelines carefully and compare your work with other Stock inventory.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html

Hope that helps.

regards,Henrik

Abambo

Community Expert

Just looking in your second picture, I'm sorry, but that one is not "cool". The sky is blown out as @Jill_C points out, but also the foreground is underexposed. Why would you use such a picture on your travel brochure, when you can get much better ones, from other contributors.

When you shoot raw, rededit the picture by lifting the shadows, lowering the whites, and you will see that a picture like this gets really cool.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

George_F

Correct answer

Community Expert

Keep in mind that a rejection from Adobe doesn't mean the photo is bad, but rather it doesn't meet the criteria they've set for a useful commercial asset. You aren't wrong that creative artistic decisions are sometimes considered a technical flaw by Adobe.

While looking through your photos in general, I noticed on the Histograms that there isn't a lot of info in the midtones, most of the info of the photo is in the shadow and highlight areas. The brights are too bright and the darks are too dark to essentially, and they could use some balancing out with exposure adjustments. A few of the photos had areas that were a bit soft on focus and could use some sharpening.

The mandarin photo had some artefacts in the shadow areas.

In Wandern 26 von 12, what I suspect is your backpack is visible in the corner and very blurry and there is something else very blurry in the photo.

I didn't look at them all in depth so there may be more. Make sure to inspect photos at between 100% - 200% before submitting, the reviewers are definitely going to do this while assessing your photos.

Good luck with future submissions 🙂

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

Jill_C

Community Expert

1. In my experience Foggy/misty images are hard to get accepted because when the moderator zooms in to inspect it just looks like soft focus.

2. sky is blownout

3. Underexposed, nothing in sharp focus

4. Blownout sky, nothing in sharp focus

5. Noise, lacks sharp focus, blownout highlight

6. Lacks sharp focus, underexposed shadows

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Lisa283530802oboAuthor

Participant

Thanks a lot. Looks like youre supposed to shoot everything at f8 for very sharp pics 😄 seems like adobe doesnt like artsy styled pics 😞 Thanks a lot

Jill_C

Community Expert

Exactly. Adobe wants realistic, minimally processed naturally edited photos; however the lack of sharp focus in your images doesn't appear to be an artistic decision...

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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