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October 18, 2022
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Why are these rejected?
- October 18, 2022
- 3 replies
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05921: Noise, white balance, and exposure. Adobe stock moderators tend to be very picky on sunset/sunrise pictures, because there is an abundant number of pictures in the database.
06086: Macro pictures are difficult to achieve correctly. For most applications, there is no problem, but stock needs them perfect. You missed the focus nearly:

I would also have edited out the lower-left corner. It disturbs. But that's not the refusal reason.
06101: Seen at 100%: out of focus.

The contrast could be more pronounced.
For most applications, your pictures would be good enough (even that you missed the focus completely on your third), but with stock you cannot predict what happens with the asset, so it really needs to be perfect.
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