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Similar image rejection

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
March 18, 2025
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Dear Contributers i am facing issue of similar image already submitted i didn't even know where and when i upload them but adobe stock give me this reason and rejected 3 images !is this any effect my account ...or suspended my account

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Sergei37432802f12q

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Hi, it seems that Adobe Stock has changed the company or staff responsible for reviewing files, and they have a quota for rejections!

Abambo

Community Expert

Your account won't be suspended for 3 similar-asset-refusals.

There are 3 possibilities:

you have some assets that are similar and Adobe decided that the current assets are enough. Generally, there is a rule of 3 pictures of one motive, then move on to something different.
you have submitted in a very crowded field, like sunrises and sunsets, and your asset does not differenciate much from a lot of snapshots.
the moderator chose the wrong reason and meant to refuse for quality issues or something different. As moderators have very little time they may, under pressure, refuse your asset for reason 5 instead of reason 3... This happens quite a lot, and more often than not.

If your account gets suspended for spamming, that means that you submitted dozends of similar assets.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Jill_C

Community Expert

It could be either a mistake by the Moderator, which as @daniellei4510 indicated, happens all too often; or there are images from other Contributors quite similar to yours.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

daniellei4510

Community Expert

The four "too similar" rejections were the first of this refusal type that I've received in over two years. One in particular was of a young girl on a slide. Upon close inspection, I decided it was a mistake and should have been a quality issue (long story short, she was sliding down head first, and it was hard to make out that she had legs; it's now in my "never resubmit pile").

But when it comes to "mistakes" like "similar images," resubmitting can be tricky, as it could border on spamming if one resubmits without making corrections. In any case, I wouldn't mind so much if the moderators were more careful about those who are clearly--if not purposely--breaking this rule.

Anyway, my plan of attack with the other three images is to correct "mistakes" that aren't really there and possibly resubmit them in a few weeks. I'm waiting to see if this trend continues with any of my other 30 images now in the queue, a few of which have been totally ignored for the past few weeks with preference given to newer assets.

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daniellei4510

Community Expert

I've received four such "too many similar" refusals in the past two days. One was of a surreal image of a woman wearing an outfit made of cabbage leaves (I know, don't laugh, it actually came out very well). Point being, I haven't submitted any other images of women dressed in cabbage outfits, and I doubt there are many available on Adobe Stock.

Meanwhile, one contributor in particular that has been pointed out previously in this forum continues to have accepted hundreds (and I do mean hundreds in a very literal sense) of images that are not only similar, but virtually identical.

Something is broken.

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muhammad_7751Author

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Dear your assets also rejected due to similar images?

daniellei4510

Community Expert

That was the reason given, yes.

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