camw56987481 wrote Its pretty obvious these are reviewed by a software robot that automaticly rejects anything that puts up a red flag i.e. large dot pattern. |
The review process is done by humans.
Neither Joan nor Jacqueline nor I am Adobe embloyees. We are contributors like you.
Moderators have a limited set of reasons they may use to reject pictures and they have no freedom to give individual hints on what exactly was the element in the picture that triggered the rejection. This ensures a quick acceptance/rejection rate, but leaves the use pretty in the dark of why his individual image has been rejected.
This is pretty the same with all stock providers but Adobe is especially picky on what they accept.
In your case there may be more than one reason to refuse the image, most have been layed out by Jacqueline and Joan in an expertly manner.
Now reasons that I see to refuse your artwork:
- cropping: the picture is cropped in a manner that does not allow the buyer to do much more with your picture. He or she cannot adapt the cropping very much to a larger format or a smaller format.
- The price tag should definitively kept blanc. I’m in Euro-land and in the Decimal-comma-land. Millions of potential viewers cannot identify themselves with this pricetag. As you use extensively transparency, if will be very difficult and time consuming to edit the pricetag to something useful (my pov as a potential buyer).
- Your extensive use of transparency and shadows may be artisticly apealing but makes this quite difficult to use as stock image to give the buyer the potential to modify the image to his needs. If it takes more time to modify than to recreate, the buyer will skip no this.
As the execution of your artwork is your artistic freedom, refusal of your artwork is Adobe’s priviledge.
You see, the pattern may even not be the reason of refusal. I do honestly not think that the pattern would have led any moderator to refuse this picture.
You are free to use also different stock providers and I‘m sure that you will get acceptance of your pictures with one or the other. You may even generate sales with such an image.
What I do is that I submit in parallel to different stock providers. Different providers — different refusals...
Have a nice day!
Very clean, sharp hi resolution. It has large dots in a moray pattern on the chair. This was intentionally done to give the fabric texture. 
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