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May 9, 2025
Question

all photos rejected due to quality issues

  • May 9, 2025
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in the last few weeks all the photos I sent are rejected for "quality problems".

It had never happened to me before, some photos were rejected but at most 10%, I would like to point out that I have more than 2000 photos in my dashboard.

I attach some example photos, I shoot with a Canon D70 and post produce with Adobe Lightroom.

Thanks in advance for any help and advice.

 

4 replies

Ricky336
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

From a compositional point of view:

 

You have part of the aerial going out of the picture.

 

Secondly, mobile phone towers, which are now placed everywhere, have destroyed the view of a nice old bell tower.

The result of the 21st-century living!! (This obviously is not a 'quality issue, but a comment on today's state of affairs.)

Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2025

These images would have been quickly accepted a few months ago. Now they are sent to the ash heap with an arbitrary push of the reject button. When my reject rate went from 5% to 40% over the last few months, I stopped uploading. 

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
Participant
May 12, 2025

Hi Jill_C.
I agree with you, until a few weeks ago 90% of my photos were accepted and in any case some of them have good sales performances, so they are not that bad.
now 100% are rejected.
maybe I will also start not uploading many more.

yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2025

If there's a sky, dust on the sensor will be more noticeable.
It will be more noticeable if you shoot with a narrower aperture.
Enlarge the image to 100% to check.

 

IMG_13375-2.jpg is out of focus.

Participant
May 12, 2025

thanks for your feedback Jamato7.

Can you also find me some reason for refusal for the third photo I attached?

yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 12, 2025

The folks at AdobeStock have a good eye.
It took me a while to find this.
I see ghosting caused by strong light sources.

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2025

I suppose the shadows could be opened up a bit in this one. In addition to assets being rejected as being too similar to other examples in the database, It seems we're seeing a lot of "I've never had this many rejections before" posts. I think Adobe has been doing everything they can--and finding every excuse they can--to keep submissions to a bare minimum. But this is in contrast to anecdotal evidence that contributors submitting 100 or more assets at a time are getting many of them accepted, at least in comparison. 

 

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Participant
May 9, 2025

thanks for the reply Daniellei4510.
I can understand increasing the rejections to improve the quality but I have been in the situation for weeks of having all the photos rejected. At most I send 10/20 photos a week and they are promptly not accepted for quality reasons.
it is really frustrating.

daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
May 9, 2025

Quality issues are rare for me. But I'm having the same issue with "too similar" rejections. For every asset accepted, anywhere from 2 to 4 are rejected for being too similar, despite arguably being unique.

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