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Inspiring
April 15, 2025
Question

Sudden removal of simple photographs with no explanations

  • April 15, 2025
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Hello fellow creators,

 

I can see I am not alone in this, but suddenly Adobe is filtering through my 4 year old stock photography and removing perfectly fine images with no explanation (link for review and undestand why does not take me there).

 

I do not and will never use AI for creating art or photography. I do hardly any editing (mostly cropping and histogram based adjustments)

 

Photos removed are well exposed, they are not duplicates, oir similat to anything, they do not infringe any copyright and are mostly taken with my house, garden and pets.

 

I am selling regularly and I would like to undertand just who is doing this filtering and based on what, to avoid uploading any photo that might be removed for the same reasons.

 

I have looked at all the forums to avoid duplicate posts but to be hones I cannot find out the principles behind the removal.

Thanks for your input!

 

PS I include below one the removed photos.

 

 

 

 

4 replies

Participant
April 16, 2025

trying to purchase footage today - suddenly gone! it was there yesterday!!!

Participant
April 16, 2025

now I have to explain to our client tomorrow why we can't deliver an edit that she looked at for weeks.

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2025

Adobe gives an explanation, even if it is may be not obvious or satisfactory. Check your refusals for a new (strange) audit refusals.

 

You should also have gotten an e-mail at the end of February announcing these removals.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Inspiring
April 15, 2025

Yes I got that email. But there is no explanation. Just removal. And I am saying these are average good photos - not AI, not badly exposed....decent quality, good focused subject etc.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 16, 2025

Averagely good might not be good enough by today's standards. 

Customers want Hi-Def images with good aesthetic appeal. They might be looking at download & sales activity, too.

 

 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2025

After reviewing the photos of mine that were removed, I determined that they had quality issues. I corrected the errors and resubmitted. Two days later, they were approved and readded back into my portfolio.

 

Your photo has quality issues. The reflection in the bottle.

Inspiring
April 15, 2025

That was good. However, in my particular case I got 2-3 emails, where they announced the removal of 2-8 assets, and only the FIRST image is disaplyed. The link does not take me anywhere. I spent ages looking in my rejected files and I cannot find out which ones have just been removed, so I cannot re submit them. This is why I am confused...

 

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2025

Removed/rejected assets are displayed in the "not accepted" tab in the sequence in which they were originally uploaded to Adobe Stock; therefore, the removed assets could be many pages back in your "not accepted" section.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2025

Are you certain that you have not duplicated this image in your portfolio? Adobe reported today that they are actively removing duplicates.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Inspiring
April 15, 2025

Thanks Jill! Good point. Hard to tell because they only show the first image, not the rest, but I've been very careful. Also, the message about duplicates came over a month ago and I think that is sorted. I have about 1000-2000 photos. 

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 15, 2025

Though the email regarding removing duplicates was sent over a month ago, Adobe has just started removing those duplicates. It appears they didn't delete all simultaneously, so the deletions might still be occurring.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer