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April 17, 2025
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No explanation behind the photos being rejected is poor quality on Adobe

  • April 17, 2025
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No reason behind being rejected within seconds. Need a reason. What about the quality. What about 6000px in width is not good quality. You accepted other photos with no issues. Need a better critique. 

Correct answer Jill_C

Your image, IMG_9067.JPG, has an underexposed sky, lacks sharp focus and has chromatic aberration (purple  fringing) among the tree branches.

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Participant
April 22, 2025

The biggest issue I’m having is that I haven’t posted anything from Japan, and the one image I did post from Japan was rejected with the excuse of ‘similar images.’ Also, they’ll deny a photo, and then if I wait three days and reupload it, it gets approved. Adobe needs to be more consistent.

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2025
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I haven’t posted anything from Japan, and the one image I did post from Japan was rejected with the excuse of ‘similar images.’

By @thefladhammer

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Other Contributors have submitted photos from all over the world, including Japan.

Compare your work with Stock's current inventory before you submit. 

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025
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No reason behind being rejected within seconds. Need a reason. What about the quality.


By @thefladhammer

Quality issues is a good reason.

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What about 6000px in width is not good quality. 


By @thefladhammer

The pixel size is not and never was a quality criteria. It's a physical fact. 

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You accepted other photos with no issues.


By @thefladhammer

Maybe they should have been rejected? It's not that I say that they should have been rejected, but it's a common argument from contributors who say that because this asset has been accepted, that asset needs to be accepted too. Without seeing the asset, we can't say what flaws may or may not be in the picture. But acceptance is not a right.

quoteNeed a better critique. 

By @thefladhammer

Well, either you check critically your pictures, or we can check one or two of them. Have a look into the critiques on this forum. You'll find a lot of inspiration in how to check a picture.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Jill_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025

There is much more to image quality than pixels and resolution. Upload your rejected image here if you want feedback from the community.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
daniellei4510
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025

"We" are not Adobe, but contributors like yourself. If you want us to take a look, post two or three of the rejected image(s) here,

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Participant
April 18, 2025
IMG_9067-JPG.jpg
Jill_C
Community Expert
Jill_CCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
April 18, 2025

Your image, IMG_9067.JPG, has an underexposed sky, lacks sharp focus and has chromatic aberration (purple  fringing) among the tree branches.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025

Do you check these requirements?

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustrations.html

 

Your image needs to be enlarged to 100% and checked closely.

Adjust brightness, color, level, cropping, etc. using Lightroom or Photoshop before submitting it.

If you post your image on the community, we'll check to see what the problem is.

 

Participant
April 17, 2025

The apparent arbitrary rejection of submissions within a short time span makes me suspicious that humans are no longer conducting the reviews.  Likely being done through an AI tool or algorithm.

 

jacquelingphoto2017
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025

Kann ich bestätigen. Fotografien, die ich vor einem halben Jahr hochgeladen habe wurden problemlos akzeptiert, jetzt auf einmal werden alle! abgelehnt, trotz identischer Qualität (Auflösung, Größe usw.). Um meine Vermutung zu prüfen, dass nur noch die KI überprüft, habe ich zwei vorher akzeptierte Fotografien: einmal als Hochformat hochgeladen und eine andere Fotografie in s/w. Beide wurden abgelehnt. Das macht kein Spaß mehr und auch kein Sinn. Man bekommt dafür eh schon sehr wenig ausgezahlt und die Mühe und Zeit die man dann reinsteckt, nur um von einer KI abgelehnt zu werden, macht kein Sinn. Ich suche jetzt nach Alternativen. Generell zu Adobe


I too, am getting 100% refusals for photographs I submit. I wont say here, but I have reasons to believe that they are not all refused for any technical quality as the notice says. It is either Adobe is using AI only to review photos, or the review moderators are refusing files without checking or flag accounts. After all, they also get paid to refuse files.  

If it's AI refusing the files, they need to program it to leave files in review for a human to check. If it's some lazy reviewers then it mean we need to all find alternatives. 

Best wishes

Jacquelin