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August 27, 2025
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  • August 27, 2025
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Hello adobe community, I have uploaded vectors icons set that is totally mine and my own, but when i uploaded on adobe stock account, it reject with an error that "similar content in our collection", but when i searched on stock adobe, no any content match with my vector icons set. My icons all totally changed and high quality. so, i want to know that is any others contributers face same issues ?, and when stock adobe will resolve this issue. i am totally disapointed with review process and rejection rate of stock adobe. Please help and guide me, also include that how much time will stock adobe take to resolove this issue

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Participant
August 29, 2025

One month ago, i made an account and i uploaded about 300 vector icons set on it, some icon set are similar with each other, but adobe accepted it, and my 6 icons set has been rejected due to quality issue. After 2 weeks, i again upload the rejected files(that adobe reject due to quality), but in this time, adobe accepted it immediately. Now when i upload another icon pack that is not even similar in my collection anad not on stock adobe, the adobe rejected my content error that "similar content in our collection". I don't understand what adobe is doing with thier contributors. Its my personal opinion that as like as quality issue now resolved, same with happen with similar content issue, this issue will also resolved after about 1 month. its my perosnal opinion, you can also share your opinion what i said and what u think

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 29, 2025
  • Submitted assets are randomly assigned to Reviewers all over the globe.
  • No two Reviewers see things exactly the same way.
  • One reviewer may accept what another reviewer rejects, and vice versa.

If you think it's worth the extra effort, make some slight changes to your assets and keywords, rename the files & resubmit.  Maybe you'll get a more forgiving Reviewer the second time.  

 

Good luck.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Inspiring
August 27, 2025

This seems to be happening mostly with AI content. I started playing with firefly, and can see why the hype. Most of the work I've created I've used my own work for reference trying to make it unique. The reality is that most AI generation has the same "creepy perfcect" similar look. 

 

I have some examples to back my points. The first is the doctor and microscope based on one of my images, I actually spent some time with it fixing mistakes, and making the skin look real, it's clean and to me looks good, but it has that creepy perfect AI look. The picture got rejected for "similar content"  (and I totally get why), even thouhg I didnt find the same scenario. The second image is the yin yang, it's from an annimation I created years ago that I had already uploaded to my sell library. The main prompt I used was placing it in outer space. The photo version got rejected for similar content, (and yes there's similar content already available with the same look) but the video version was accepted, I think bc no one has created a video version with the similar characteristics.  

One more thing, I think Adobe's buyers search engine sometime fails scanning all the images they have, probably from over worked servers with too much traffic... a few times I've searched for my photos to make sure I have not already uploaded, and they don't show up. Then I submit the photo, it gets accepted only to find out later I already had uploaded it the same shot before.

 

Doing any search it's obvious adobe is already saturated with AI work, some is trully amazing, but most has the creepy perfect similar look. This forces us to create very unique work, and will only be achieved by either having some very unique visions of what we create, and or spendng vasts amounts of time fine tuning whatever we create.

 

Again, Adobe risks becoming just another stock agency if they allow all the AI work been produced, and that is something I"m sure they understand they don't want happening.  

These are exciting times for creative people, I will continue playing with Firefly, but very mindful not to get myself trapped with the illusion that the computer will be doing most of the work for me. 

Cheers!

 

 

Francisco ZALEZPHOTO
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2025

Another step or two is needed to make him look less creepy. 🙂

 

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
Inspiring
August 27, 2025

This AI guy is probably already dating a bunch of real life women, I liked his perfect facial pores filled with makeup powder 😂👍

Francisco ZALEZPHOTO
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2025

Did you compare your icons with others in Stock's inventory?

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Participant
August 28, 2025

Yes, of course it compared my icons with others in stock inventory but  even not any single icon is looking same with my icons. i just curious about the algorithm of stock adobe. i just want to knwo that how many time will is take to resolve this issue and when adobe will resolve this issue

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 27, 2025

"so, i want to know that is any others contributers face same issues"

 

Search the forum. Dozens of contributors are facing this problem...which Adobe, as far as we know, does not consider it a problem.

Adobe Community Expert | If you can't fix it, hide it; if you can't hide it, delete it.
Participant
August 28, 2025

I searched on the forum, but no one is telling us the right answer to this issue. i want to know that how this issue can be managed. or will adobe change its review algorithm when most of the contributors are facing this issue? and how many time this issue will take to resolved

Participant
October 10, 2025

No one in the Contributor community is telling you the "right answer to this issue" because there is no answer. Adobe has changed the reviewing system to reject a lot of images, and they seem satisfied with the system "as is". This is the new normal. We'll just have to live with it, or move on to another stock agency.


move on to another stock agency.