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Rejection reason and how to improve the picture

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
August 17, 2025
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Hi everyone, I'm a new contributer. My pictures got rejected, I would be aprecciated if you help me what would be the exact and professional reason for the rejection and how can I improve my pictures?

jacquelingphoto2017

Community Expert

Hi @Inspiration Soul ,

Your first image is underexposed and details are lost in the shadows. You placed you focus too far out to capture the landscape and I detect chromatic noise.

The issue I find with the second image was already highlighted.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

RALPH_L

Community Expert

the sunset has a leaning horizon, the foreground is underexposed and serves no purpose in the photo, a very small spot in the sky (probably a bird) wich needs removing and some posterization in the sky.

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Inspiration SoulAuthor

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Thank you!

Jill_C

Community Expert

Your sunset image has a leaning horizon.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Inspiration SoulAuthor

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Thanks!

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

You're unlikely to make sales from this content due to over-supply.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=sunset 31 MILLION results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=sunrise 40 MILLION results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=leaf 73 MILLION results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=flowers 71 MILLION results

Successful Stock Contributors produce high quality assets that are in demand for commercial use, but for which there is limited inventory.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=food+storage+containers

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=soda+cans

Read your Contributor User Guide for more tips.

Good luck.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Inspiration SoulAuthor

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Thanks for your tips!

daniellei4510

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Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.

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Inspiration SoulAuthor

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Thank you! The flare on top is part of the reflection I have no idea how to fix it. Do you have any suggestion. I also appreciate if I can hear about your feedback on the other picture.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Short of experimenting with AI, there isn't much you can do to fix the flare. As for the other image, I'm curious why you are going for a square format. Landscapes are generally more impressive if photographed with a wider aspect ratio. In any case, there are no over 31 million sunset assets on Adobe Stock, so even if it passed a quality inspection, it might get refused due to being to similar to other assets in the database.

Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.

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