Similar content - Textures

Forum|Forum|6 months ago
August 22, 2025
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Hi, I'm a texture artist, and I wanted to upload my works on Adobe Stock, but after posting like 50 images, Adobe is telling me, that my other works are Similar, when i basically went through this similar content, and not only didn't find any textures like mine, but also found 100+ images that look exactly alike, and that are right now in the stock.

Here i provide the example of "similar content" that are hand made seamless 4k textures in arctic style.

But there are many others. Not event mentioning providing camouflage in colours/patterns that are not event avaliable on stock.

My question is simple: how it is even determined, what is similar, and what is not. Is it some kind of dumb bot, or some adobe employee, that doesn't really care.

Contributor critique

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Adobe Stock has gazillions of wallpapers, backgrounds, abstract patterns & textures already.

Even if accepted into the collection, your sales prospects are low due to so much competing inventory from Stock and other free sources.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/how-to-submit-distinct-content.html

The trick is to find a genuine need & fill it with high quality commercial-ready artwork that customers are willing to pay for.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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SnowyCocoonAuthor

Participant

Well of course, you're right that there are "gazillions" of images on stock, I can't disagree. But there are not gazilllions of military pattern M90, or gazillions of Strichtarn pattern, or not event mentioning my own unique patterns that I'm creating. These pattern are missing, I'm trying to supply them, and I can't. I then recive an info, that There is simillar content, because for some reviewer "military camo" means one thing, and all of those patterns are similar. It's funny that you are mentioning sales prospects, and genuine needs, when i sell those pattern on other sites easly, so deman do exist. I just wonder why I can't upload them on this stock.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Perhaps military pattern experts are not Adobe Stock's main target user. They know which assets their customers buy and which ones they don't.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

RALPH_L

Community Expert

All we can say is that Adobe has changed its "Similar Content" proofing and is satisfied about the results. We have not been informed what the new criteria is and thus we can not help you prevent the rejection.

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