Trying to Hone My Editing Skills - Thoughts on Why These Photos Weren't Accepted?

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March 14, 2025
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Hey stock community!

I had a decent number of photos that don't get accepted. Sometimes I understand why after the fact, and sometimes I still don't get it. I'd love to get your (a more unbiased, third-party) perspective on why the following three photos weren't accepted for "Quality Issues." I do have a software that auto-denoises/sharpenes/etc. but feel I do a decent job at editing with it to an appropriate extent. I do not use generative AI.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts you have. Feel free to rip them apart. 🙂

Contributor critique

yamato713108855

Community Expert

Have you applied strong sharpening?

If you apply strong sharpening from the beginning, it may have a negative effect when users process and use the asset.

RALPH_L

Community Expert

The first photo has a slight blue tint and I believe a white halo around the structures. The second photo is missing blacks. The third photo has artifacts in the water.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

There is zero profit potential from clouds. There's too much competing inventory from Stock and AI services.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=clouds

You'll do better with less represented subjects -- i.e. packing tape, thumb tacks, paper clips.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

qkampAuthor

Participant

Great point - does Adobe kill certain types of photos under the guise of "Quality Issues" then? It's a simple photo that I figured was otherwise great quality.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

No. There is a separate refusal notification for "too many similars," which can include one's own similar assets or all the assets as a whole available on Adobe Stock.

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