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March 12, 2025
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"Similar Content" Rejections – How to Avoid Them?

  • March 12, 2025
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Hello, 
I’ve been experiencing multiple image rejections due to "similar content," and I’m trying to understand the exact criteria behind this. I make sure my images are not identical, but I still receive this rejection.
 Could someone clarify,
How does Adobe define "similar content"? Is it based on subject matter, composition, color scheme, or something else?
What are the best practices to avoid this type of rejection while still uploading variations of a concept?
 
Some of them are here

 

Correct answer Abambo

Don't submit similar assets and do not submit assets in crowded themes. Similar refusals may be both, submitting similar assets, or submitting assets that are similar to a lot of other assets in the database.

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jacquelingphoto2017
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 13, 2025

Hi @Januka Chamodh ,

Each of your files must have something specially or significantly different about it. For example if you were to submit pictures of a truck, it would be best to submit a picture each of the front, back, and a side. You'd submit the second side if there's something significantly different about the other side, such as a seal coating distributor truck having a thermometer on one side of the tank and the plain tank on the other. All your files would be similar (the same truck) with something special about each image. You would be allowed a wide, including it's surrounding and a tight cropped closeup. There must be something special about each. Different colors do not count. If there's not something significant about each crop, different crop of the same picture does not count. Your images must not be looking closely alike. Each of your picture must be telling a different story. If it's a series of pictures of the same subject each picture must be saying something different about the subject like telling a story; each picture a new paragraph. You can read up the guidelines here. 

All the images you post here are similar and are looking too close without anything significantly different about them. You need to break free from that style and produce something that looks totally different. 

Best wishes

Jacquelin 

Participating Frequently
March 13, 2025

I was struggling with this, your explanation made it much clearer. Thanks a lot!"🙂🙂

Abambo
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AbamboCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 12, 2025

Don't submit similar assets and do not submit assets in crowded themes. Similar refusals may be both, submitting similar assets, or submitting assets that are similar to a lot of other assets in the database.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2025

These are definitely too similar. Also, the database is already overrun with these types of gradient backgrounds which are fairly easy for a Buyer to create on their own.

 

Read this help page for more info on how to avoid the "similars" rejection:

Similar content versus spam for Adobe Stock Contributors

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
March 12, 2025

They are being rejected as similars because they are similar. Three at most will do.

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