Question

Why would these images get rejected?

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
December 12, 2025
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I have over 3000 assets on Adobe Stock, have been contributing for over two years and generate a nice bit of pocket money from my uploads.

Every now and then some of my images get rejected for quality issues and it puzzles me as to why. Please see the latest images here that have been rejected due to "Common issues that can impact the technical quality of images"

I'd love some feedback on these as an entire set I shot has been rejected.

Contributor critique

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All 4 refusals suffer from poor lighting & improper white balance.

For comparison, this is what you're competing with in Stock inventory:

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=cosmetic+bottle 2.6 million results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=cosmetic+tube 778K results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=hair+iron 110K results

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=sunglasses 7.8 million results

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Chroma noise is evident on the hair straightener, and the image should be cropped to eliminate some of the distracting background.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Also, frames do not match:

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

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Upon further review, I suppose that could be a shadow, but still cause for rejection.

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

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Your lighting, shadows and background are not well done.
Also, utilize the Rule of Thirds and zoom in on your subject.
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cosmetics bottle moisturizer plain bottle mockup-1.jpg: White balance, focus, exposure, chromatic aberration.

skincare product bottle cosmetic tube yellow-3.jpg: noise, exposure, chromatic aberration, but anly very lightly, focus.

sunglasses with blue lenses sports spectacles-2.jpg: exposure, focus and noise.

hair straighteners ceramic styling tool-2.jpg: exposure, focus, chroma noise, probably also white balance.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer