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.

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daniellei4510

Community Expert

We can't be of much help without seeing a couple of the assets in questions if you want to post a couple. There have been no changes in the review process or introduction of automaticed AI that anyone is aware of.

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

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arslan_2616Author

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However, my issue seems quite unusual. For the past three days, my images have been getting rejected every minute or hour non-stop. So far, nearly 250 images have been rejected.

Previously, my images used to go through bulk review, where some would get accepted and some rejected. But this week, things have changed—every hour, I only receive rejections, with not a single acceptance. This is really frustrating and confusing

daniellei4510

Community Expert

The review process has been a little weird lately. I normally have about 5 to 8 assets reviewed per day. For the past few days, I've only been getting one or two. Same thing happened to me last month. Drip, drip, drip, and then 20+ or so reviewed in a couple of days. Difficult to say what's going on.

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

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