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"Technical Issues" Rejection Happy

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July 24, 2021
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I've been an Adobe Stock contributor for 16 years and have over 3000 images here. Lately, however, Adobe seems to be "Technical Issues" rejection happy. I'm having nearly all of my submissions rejected. I very carefully examine all of my images in PS at 200% before submitting them. There are no technical issues.

Take the two images attached as an example. One was accepted, one rejected for Technical Issues. Which do you think was accepted and which rejected?

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Nancy OShea

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I've been an Adobe Stock contributor for 16 years and have over 3000 images here.

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@scottbu,

Congratulations. Well done! How often do you have your camera professionally cleaned & serviced?

I like your images a lot. They're very dramatic. That said, I know if I were a Stock Reviewer, I would be sick of seeing sunsets/sunrises. Although they can be very beautiful, the Stock library already contains millions and millions and millions of technically & visually perfect sunset clouds. No joke and no exaggeration. This is an immensely competitive category so your work really must be perfect to get accepted. And yes, the standards bar has risen as have camera technologies and the pool of contributor talent. Nothing stays the same.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

scottbuAuthor

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Hi, Nancy.

Generally every 3 years. I only shoot about 10,000 shots per year on average, so that seems to work well.

Thanks for the compliment on my sunset shots. I'm curious, though. If the problem is that there are too many sunset shots, why did they accept one and not the other one? And why reject it for "Technical Issues?" If my two images are too similar, why didn't they reject one for "Similar already submitted." And if they're sick of sunsets, why didn't the reject it for "Overabundant category?"

There are millions and millions of technically & visually perfect images of a woman wearing a headset in a call center smiling at you. Yet people still submit them by the hundreds per month, and the new ones that are also technically & visually perfect are accepted.

Not trying to be combative. It's just very frustrating when Adobe rejects images that I know to be of sufficient quality and interest that they should be accepted. In fact, Adobe accepted 5 very similar images to the one they rejected. All were taken with the same camera and settings within minutes of each other, and all processed in the same batch with the identical ACR settings. So there is no way that one image should be rejected for "Technical Issues." Can you tell which of the two I posted was rejected?

Meanwhile, Shutterstock and Dreamstime happily accepted all of my latest submission, while Adobe rejected 8 of 10 for "Technical Issues." Yes, I know they all have different criteria. This isn't my first rodeo.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I can see that. None of us can read the reviewer's minds. We can only speculate. If I had to choose from the 2 images posted, I would select the top one for framing reasons, it adheres more to the "rule of thirds."

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

RALPH_L

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Hello @scottbu , at 300% you can see that there are artifacts where the shadows meet the brighter areas.

scottbuAuthor

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In which one... the one they accepted or the one they rejected? And by the way, which one is which?

I could point out about 500 of my images they have accepted that have worse "artifacts." The boundry between a bright sky and dark mountains will always contain artifacts. They are caused by jpg compression. It's the nature of the beast.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

In which one... the one they accepted or the one they rejected? And by the way, which one is which?

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We don't work for Adobe and thus have no idea what Adobe accepted or rejected. Only you have access to that information.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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