Rejected photos

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
September 11, 2025
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Hi all, I decided to try and put some photos to good use and upload to Stock. They're taken on my Pixel phone (edited in Lightroom), so wasn't sure if they'd be accepted. To my pleasant surprise, after uploading around 30 so far, around half have been accepted...but half rejected.

So I wanted to try and find out if there's anything I can do to improve the acceptance rate, or whether the quality being from my phone (or anything else), for some of the images, simply isn't good enough.

For example, some that were rejected, I edited again, eg by playing with white balance, reducing effects to a minimum, which I re-uploaded and had accepted. But I'm learning as I go so wondered if there's anything more specific I could try.

The ones that have been accepted are here: https://stock.adobe.com/uk/contributor/212933335/Rich%20Goddard

and I've attached some of those that were rejected. Be great to hear any thoughts/constructive criticism. Thanks so much!

Contributor critique

Ricky336

Community Expert

Think about your composition as in this pic:

Perhaps you could remove them.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Also, you should convert your color space to sRGB during the editing process, as per Adobe's requirements (though this is seldom a reason for rejection).

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Rich_GoddardAuthor

Participant

Will look into it, thanks!

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Depth of field can be challenging with automatic cameras.

Focus on background, take a shot. Focus on foreground, take a shot. Stack cropped layers in Photoshop.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Abambo

Community Expert

As for pic1:

This blown out reflections should be edited out. In addition, I see some ugly compression artefacts and little contrast in the flattened background. I'm surprised, however, about the quality of the image. That may be the reason, why half of the assets did pass.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer