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Sudden Continuous Rejections on Adobe Stock – AI Tool Involved?

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March 19, 2025
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Hi everyone, For the past three days, all my submitted photos on Adobe Stock have been getting rejected. I receive rejections every hour, with 2-3 photos or sometimes even 5-10 at once, and none of my images are getting accepted. I always follow Adobe’s submission guidelines and ensure high-quality content, so this sudden wave of rejections is quite confusing. Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? Also, I’m wondering if Adobe has implemented any AI-based review tool that might be causing this? Could this be an automated system issue, or has there been a change in the review process? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Correct answer Nancy OShea

Good enough for Pexels is not good enough for Adobe Stock.
Stock customers are mainly Adobe product users. They have much higher expectations than customers at competing services.
Additionally, Stock pays higher royalty rates. They are more selective about what they accept into the collection.

98% of quality refusals are identifiable by trained eyes. If you’re not sure why yours was refused, post one or two assets here for feedback. We need to see full-sized images, not previews. Compress to under 5 MB to satisfy this forum’s filesize limit.

Also, keep in mind that Reviewers are closely checking your submission from desktop displays at 100% magnification. If you’re trying to do Stock from a phone or tablet alone, you’re probably missing the bigger picture.

Read through your Contributor User Guide, starting with the 4-part Photography requirements below:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/photo-submission-overview.html

Good luck.

Nancy OShea

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Good enough for Pexels is not good enough for Adobe Stock.
Stock customers are mainly Adobe product users. They have much higher expectations than customers at competing services.
Additionally, Stock pays higher royalty rates. They are more selective about what they accept into the collection.

98% of quality refusals are identifiable by trained eyes. If you’re not sure why yours was refused, post one or two assets here for feedback. We need to see full-sized images, not previews. Compress to under 5 MB to satisfy this forum’s filesize limit.

Also, keep in mind that Reviewers are closely checking your submission from desktop displays at 100% magnification. If you’re trying to do Stock from a phone or tablet alone, you’re probably missing the bigger picture.

Read through your Contributor User Guide, starting with the 4-part Photography requirements below:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/photo-submission-overview.html

Good luck.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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GS29720456qnw5

Participant

I also found that their rejection for quality issues seems so random and doesn’t seem to be consistent. Either they use AI to filter, or whoever moderates submissions doesn’t seem to know. Adobe Stock rejects the same photos that other well-known stock agencies had accepted, citing quality issues.

jaychristianson

Participant

It has happened to me, all of a sudden even photos at iso64 have been rejected. Nothing is being accepted. Something has gone wrong.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

If your assets were rejected for quality issues, a low ISO has little to do with quality. We HAVE seen a spattering of examples lately where we can't understand the reason for what appear to be perfectly good images being rejected, but it doesn't happen often. Contributors are always welcome to post here to the opinion of volunteers and other contributors.

Adobe Community Expert | If you aren't submitting your assets in sRGB, you probably didn't read the rules.

Andriii

Participant

Hi, absolutely the same problem. The issue here is definitely not in the quality, at least because a week or two ago ai images were received in batch with rejection of maximum 3-4 images out of 20. Now 10 sent 10 rejected. In the reason for rejection began to write often that already sent previously similar image. Talked to the operator explained the problem in response a set of formulaic phrases say read the manual and be creative send only what you think will be interesting. By the way, recently my friend also received a batch rejection, he sent isolates real photos on a white background and he all cut off so perhaps the problem is not exactly in the AI image and something else but this trend is not good.

Abambo

Community Expert

Hi, absolutely the same problem. The issue here is definitely not in the quality,

By @Andriii

Quality is one refusal that we can check and cope with, but the similar refusal is simply nonsense. I still think that the search tool they are using is giving wrong answers.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Bardhok.N

Inspiring

I'm pausing all content submissions to Adobe Stock for now until something changes. Lately, nearly 100% of my submissions are being rejected, often with the reason that I've submitted similar content before — even when the photo is of a location I've never photographed before. It's frustrating and unclear whether this issue is affecting just photography or video content as well.

Abambo

Community Expert

That's understandable.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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AnitaMiszczyk

Participant

Hi, I had similar situation this week. My whole batch was rejected - 40 pictures, all claiming quality issues. To make matter weired, a week ago second part of this batch was almost entirely accepted and they had no quality issues. I have sent a ticket and requested more information concearning this rejection, but we will see if I ever hear any reply.

Jill_C

Community Expert

If you get any response at all it will be a canned reply.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

Koray1549

Participant

Yes I get a lot of rejections these few weeks. It's like they are tired of evaluating. They just reject all saying "similar uploaded" which is rarely the case. They realy shrinked the filter.

Abambo

Community Expert

Yes I get a lot of rejections these few weeks. It's like they are tired of evaluating. They just reject all saying "similar uploaded" which is rarely the case. They realy shrinked the filter.

By @Koray1549

The similar refusal checks against the whole database, they'll always find a similar one. As this refusal is so massive, there is for sure a tool involved checking all assets against what you upload, and flagging those that get a certain threshold of similar arrets.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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oleschwander

Legend

The millions of AI images submitted every day are getting out of hand ... :0(

Ricky336

Community Expert

It would seem that Adobe Stock is cleaning house! I think the acceptance rate has probably increased dramatically, probably due to the influx of assets now. So, what may have been OK a few years ago is now not as good due to the increase in quality (and numbers).

Therefore, it would seem that Adobe is removing assets that these days would not pass the quality test.

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rob_ert_clea_ver

Participating Frequently

If you look on Adobe Stock Discord, lots of prople are suffering from a sudden and unexplained increase in rejections, with some of the reasoning not making sense.

Abambo

Community Expert

If you look on Adobe Stock Discord, lots of prople are suffering from a sudden and unexplained increase in rejections, with some of the reasoning not making sense.

By @rob_ert_clea_ver

Not all rejections are sudden and unexplained. I've seen rarely a quality issues refusal that wasn't correct. The similar refusals that many experience now are really not explainable, even that Adobe says it checks the assets against all of their database.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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