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January 26, 2026
Question

Request for Feedback on Rejected Adobe Stock Image

  • January 26, 2026
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Hello everyone,
This is an image I created using Adobe Photoshop. Unfortunately, Adobe Stock did not accept it due to quality standards.
I would really appreciate your professional feedback on why this image may have been rejected. Specifically, I'd like to understand if there are any issues related to technical quality, sharpness, noise, artifacts, over-processing, or overall stock suitability.
Any suggestions on how I can improve this image to meet Adobe Stock's requirements would be extremely helpful.
Thank you in advance for your time and valuable feedback.

5 replies

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 27, 2026

To give you some idea of what you're competing with, compare your best work with current inventory:

 

As you can see, there's a lot of competing inventory in these keywords, making it a very difficult sell. 

 

Best advice, find subjects to submit that Stock needs & customers are likely to want for use in commercial projects. 

 

Good luck.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2026

Adobe Stock is overrun with such gradient backgrounds. Go to stock.adobe.com and search for backgrounds and you'll see what your competition is. 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2026

There are well over 102 million abstract background or wallpaper in the database. Even if accepted, the competition is extremely stiff for these types of assets.

Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.
yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 26, 2026

It's very noisy.

Not only that, many Adobe Stock users can create simple designs themselves.

This type of design may not be very popular.

ZALEZPHOTO
Legend
January 26, 2026

I try to avoid my personal opinions on how bad an image is, what I try to do is advice on how to improve.

Frankly, I don't get your assets... What makes this valuable, who, why, would buy it?

I think it's always great to learn Photoshop techniques to make work, perhaps you can use this approach for a bigger project, where this is just one layer of a much elaborate and interesting final piece.

 

Keep exploring and don't stop is my best advice, this peices are too early in that process, and frankly I see no current value in them.

 

 

ZALEZPHOTO