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Similar content in our collection

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
June 29, 2025
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Good day. I uploaded 10 images of this style on different topics, 5 of which were accepted and 5 were not. The motivation is: Similar content in our collection. Sorry, but I have not come across anything like this. I have sketches that I can provide, these works were made by me and I can prove it. Can you show me where they are repeated? I worked on them for a long time and in the end this is it. In this way, you limit the authors and they lose the desire to work with stocks. Please review these works.

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BALANSLAVAAuthor

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Hi. After the third attempt, they accepted everything))))
First they wrote -- Similar content in our collection --- then -- Quality Issues ---- it is not clear how their verification team works? thus, nothing will pass at all....
Designer works on it....and wastes time...
I changed the title (because it was similar to the others) and added quality when recording EPS10. And everything passed. Thanks colleagues for the support.

Abambo

Community Expert

Quality refusals are normally warranted. You "can't "add quality when saving as an EPS10 file.

Your assets, when checked mechanically, are similar, even though they have distinct content. As they are comparing the submitted file against their whole database, I suppose some moderators do not check the asset when the tool returns a similarity suspicion.

In this sense, you have two possibilities: submit your work or do not submit. Even after critique from serious contributors, Adobe still thinks that their approach is the good one.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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BALANSLAVAAuthor

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So what do you advise colleagues, write to support? or change keywords and description and upload again?

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Both. If enough contributors show our concern over this issue, they might eventually do something. I've had just short of 200 "too similar" rejections. I've had around 10 of those 200 accepted after resubmitting them with new re-arranged keywords and revised titles (about 4 were rejected a second time for the same reason), and I've had about 4 assets rejected that were originally rejected for quality issues (rightfully so), but were rejected as "too similar" after correcting errors and resubmitting.

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Your previews are too small to assess.

The problem with 'similar content' could be triggered by your Keywords & Titles.

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Vision350771902ejx

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It's stupid to wait 1-2 weeks only to have all my images rejected... seriously... I can't figure out what similarities they find... [moderator removed abuse]. Sometimes I just want to delete my account entirely... it's a waste of time to take pictures for $0.001, just to make $1 every 3 months... It's too much work, and it's not worth it.

Abambo

Community Expert

it's a waste of time to take pictures for $0.001, just to make $1 every 3 months... It's too much work, and it's not worth it.

By @Vision350771902ejx

You have two possibilities: continue contributing or stopping to contribute. It's your choice. If it's not worth, I would stop.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Vision350771902ejx

Known Participant

[moderator removed abuse] Whatever I upload, it says it has found similarities; it rejects every single image I try to use. It's clear they need to fix this problem, and if they don't, nobody will post anything anymore. I don't know what program or artificial intelligence they are using, but you can't just reject every image randomly for no reason.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Too similar content has been is a common reason for rejection for the past two or three months. Many contributors have slowed down and stopped contributing as a result, since the refusal reason is often seemingly quite arbitrary. In any event, you are not addressing Adobe here but contributors like yourself, many of whom are experiencing the same problem.

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