Rejected for "Technical Issues" Ba Hombug!!!

It's very simple: The image moderator chooses the refusal reason on the first defect in the image that he finds and refuses the imeg. The refusal reason is quite generic and gives an indication where to look for. If you really want an in depth critique of your picture, post it here and give the refusal reason as an indicator. Most of the defects are quite obvious and easy to find and very often there are many reasons to refuse an imge.

The moderator chooses a refusal reason out of the pool and he's done. If you are French, you get the refusal in French, if you are German you get it in German and if you are English (speaking) you get it in English, but it's always the same predifined answer. This system helps to safe a lot of time. Unfortunatly from your point of view, the system is optimized to safe Adobe's time and not yours, but after a while, you will get an eye for the refusals and check your images before submitting for the small details.

Some tipps:

• In general looking at your image at 100% (or even 200%) magnification shows the nasty little arfefacts introduced by small sensors or high ISO.
• The histogram reveals bad exposure.
• Little parts of logos result in IP refusals
• Faces, even smaller ones result also on refusals, if you did not submit the signed release form.
• Some pictures get refused because the white balance is off.
• etc.

Often the refusal reason is quite obvious for us more experienced contributors. But as the moderation is done by humans, some images may pass as others will stall with about the same quality.

There is an other reason for such a system: With the time, you get a feeling for what may get accepted and what get's refused.

I don't know how much experience you have submitting to other houses, but I'm guessing it's much the same at all of them.  Adobe Stock reviewers must evaluate 1000's of submissions per day.  So if you're expecting specific reasons for rejection, you won't get it from Stock reviewers who simply haven't the time to give detailed feedback to each contributor for each submission that's received.  There aren't enough hours in a day for that.  

Competition is fierce.  There are a lot of very talented Stock contributors who do excellent work.  To succeed at this, your work must not only be the highest visual and technical quality, it should have some WOW factor setting it apart from all the rest.  BTW, Technical Quality is a checkbox along with other reasons for rejection.

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

That said, a reasonably intelligent person who has a working knowledge of photographic technique, proper lighting, color balance, composition and post production editing, shouldn't have any trouble figuring out what Technical Quality means.  But if you're really stumped, show us your image.  This user forum has hundreds of hours of collective experience to draw upon.  We may not be able to read the reviewer's mind exactly but we can usually get you headed in the right direction.

I do sort of get you on this.  While there are some images where the technical issue is fairly straightforward - focus, artifacts, CA, etc that will be picked up on the forums there are others where it is much less obvious - forum members will give opinions but they seem to be far more subjective and we have no way of knowing whether they are correct.

When it comes to "Adobe is not our teacher" - this is only partially correct.  It is indeed the case that Adobe is not there to teach us how to hold a camera straight - or straighten the horizon post.  Or how to get the focus right, how to sort CA etc - at least not on this board, I am sure on the LR and PS boards there will be plenty of support on how to do just that.  However, Adobe does have to be the teacher when it comes to things like composition, saturation and exposure levels and other parts of post processing that are more subjective in nature.  Adobe has to be the teacher because their requirements in these areas are different from everywhere else.  There can be an image that has won a camera club competition, and been accepted by other agencies that is rejected here because of subjective assessment.  If we are not told what the subjective assessment is we cannot learn how to meet Adobes requirements. 

I would like to see some way of technical requirements being made more precise - even if it is just a tick box saying focus,composition etc.

Naturally, this would also save me time and effort.