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July 1, 2023
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I submitted image of a dog and was rejected because of a previous image of clouds I had submitted for being too similar. How can a dog and clouds be similar?

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Correct answer Abambo

Images may also be vetted against the complete database for popular subjects. The refusal message is badly worded, however.

jacquelingphoto2017

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Hi @Chris30281789ah3j ,

You get similar rejection if you submit multiple of a subject that does not have significant variation, or if there is an identical or one close to what you submit already in your portfolio. You do not get similar rejection because others have dogs in their portfolio or because Adobe things they have too much dogs in their database. You are allowed one each at different angles, close-up, wide angle, portrait and landscape - a max of six photos of the subject.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

EzyRider_II

Inspiring

as a matter of fact Jacquelin some people commented here contrary to what you wrote. i.e.: a photo can get rejected because there is a too similar photo (not youurs) in the database. I have no idea if it is correct or not, but I did read this several times here. I just thrown it in there. again, that's what I read! and supposedly it comes from trustworthy sources. I agree, that it's not fair, because your new (and rejected) photo may be better than the old one in the database, yet...!

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Adobe Stock contains millions & millions of dog images and even more clouds.

Best advice, find other subjects to submit and stay away from low percentage sellers like flowers, plants, trees, sunsets, clouds & pets. Compare yours with current inventory. If Adobe Stock already have 12 million of them, it's a sure bet they don't need more.

Whatever you submit to Stock must be of highest visual & technical quality and useful for commercial content creators to use in their own projects. Put yourself in the customer's shoes. Be creative and think outside the box.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

EzyRider_II

Inspiring

my bestseller (by far!) is a tree : ). but that was a "lucky shot" and seems to be an exception. for the rest (dogs, cats...) you are most likely correct. best to stay away from those. even if hey are dear to you.

Abambo

Community Expert

my bestseller (by far!) is a tree : ).

By @EzyRider_II

Stock works in such a way, that recent sales have more weight in searches. If the asset has many sales and a recent sale, it will come first, as there is a chance that it will earn another sale. That's basic sales tactics.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

Correct answer

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Images may also be vetted against the complete database for popular subjects. The refusal message is badly worded, however.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

EzyRider_II

Inspiring

Wow! Now that's a shocker! So this means that one or a few lucky people who
posted at the right time in any particular subject can monopolize that
subject? First come, first served? Late-comers: you snooze, you lose? Wow,
wow, wow.
Even if a more recent upload attempt in that subject is an improvement and
would serve customers better? That is some very thin ice in my view.

T

Test Screen Name

Legend

Well, we don't know what Adobe really do, but we have various guesses. It isn't that Adobe say - "no we have a dog already". In fact, if you search Adobe stock for "dog" you'll find they have 4,603,016 images matching. So, if you are just sending a neat picture of your favourite pet, the chances are quite good that there is already a similar picture - similar breed, location, behaviour. We're pretty sure that reviewers don't look through all 4 million. So, I speculate they do one or two of these things

1. Search on the same subject as you, or same keywords or whatever. See if your picture is visually similar to another one already there.

2. Do an image search of the entire database for something similar, with or without human review.

So, why do Adobe do this? Frankly, for the customers. The customer does not want to search for "dog on cushion with treat" and see a lot of similar images. It wastes their time. They expect a wide range of treatments, settings, and styles.

So -- did you do a search on your proposed subject? It's not enough to just go into your photo library and choose favourites: this is a commercial exercise and you have hundreds of thousands of rivals you are competing with. Many people say that pictures of dogs, cats, trees, flowers and sunsets (among other subjects) are not worth submitting anyway - too many great images already, just too many images - so yours won't even be seen, still less licensed. Instead, imagine you're a customer, think of a commercial need, do searches, see what is under-represented, and seize that opportunity!

Jill_C

Community Expert

The rejection reason code for similars is misleading because it states that the image was rejected based on similarity to other images in your account; hiwever it has been stated by Adobe employees here and in the Discord channel that similarities to images already in the database from other Contributors may also cause rejections.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

EzyRider_II

Inspiring

Not sure if I follow. In both images there was a dig and there were clouds, or only a similar scene in the second one, but no dog? In any case, if you submit similar subjects in one upload batch, chances are that Adobe will only accept one if them. And probably rightly so. Just my humble opinion. Space is precious and while we may like both photos and wish they both could be stored, well. Adobe will pick one for us. And not always the preferred one. Just life I suppose. Better to upload only your preferred one.

George_F

Community Expert

I've never seen a specific image referenced when I've had a rejection for "Similar Images". How are you sure it was an image of clouds that caused your dog photo to be rejected?

I believe if you don't have anything similar in your portfolio, that it was other images in the Adobe Stock database that were referenced. There are quite a few pet photos.

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

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