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natalia_g
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March 20, 2025
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Rejection due to low quality. What is the reason?

  • March 20, 2025
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Good afternoon, everyone. My work was rejected due to poor quality. I recently started my way on the stock, please help me to understand what exactly is wrong with the works? This is a sketch on a transparent background, in png.

Correct answer Abambo

You have cutout errors: 

They should be filled with white, not transparent!

 

Your lines are quite soft, and there are also some classic cutout errors, like leftovers.

I use the stroke fx in Photoshop to detect cutout issues. 

 

As mentioned above, your lines are "soft" a bit like the cut-out filter or similar in Photoshop. That is not sufficient quality for Adobe stock. 

 

I also checked 303: 

Blue: cutout errors (transparency where there should be none. You see that well with the stroke effect. 

Yellow arrow: corners need to be sharp angles, not this round soft angle. 

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Abambo
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AbamboCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 20, 2025

You have cutout errors: 

They should be filled with white, not transparent!

 

Your lines are quite soft, and there are also some classic cutout errors, like leftovers.

I use the stroke fx in Photoshop to detect cutout issues. 

 

As mentioned above, your lines are "soft" a bit like the cut-out filter or similar in Photoshop. That is not sufficient quality for Adobe stock. 

 

I also checked 303: 

Blue: cutout errors (transparency where there should be none. You see that well with the stroke effect. 

Yellow arrow: corners need to be sharp angles, not this round soft angle. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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natalia_gAuthor
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March 20, 2025

Thank you very much for the clarification and advice on how to check my work before sending it to the warehouse. I really want my work to be of high quality. Could you please tell me more, is a non-color sketch with gaps acceptable? And in what format is it better to upload it: png or svg?

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity Expert
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March 20, 2025

Sure, they are acceptable. However, I see quality issues also here: 

If those are vector assets, I would strongly suspect that you use a program to vectorize the assets. Or you are using generative AI to generate these. Both would result in more or less the same issues. You will need to manually correct the assets in both cases.

 

Submitting vector assets is always better than submitting PNGs. But at the end of the day, you need to decide if the vector will pass as this, as normally vectorized assets are a bunch of very strange lines, and Adobe would like you to structure your vector file in layers and sublayers and groups etc. 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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