Reject: IMAGE OR SIMILAR IMAGES ALREADY SENT

[Mar5C3D]

Hello
I don't understand why a series of bird photos have been rejected, claiming similar images already uploaded when in my portfolio, although I do have other photos of birds, they don't look like these. I don't understand what has happened. Some help?

[RALPH_L · Accepted solution]

As statedn in the guidelines, "similar images" may also mean that the database contains too many similar images.

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[jacquelingphoto2017]

Hi @Mar5C3D ,

If you post about 3 of your rejected similar birds and the link to your public profile we will be better able to explain to you so you can understand and not repeat the error in the future. Similar rejection only apply to your portfolio and not the entire Adobe database.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

[Mar5C3D]

Hello

I show the images rejected for similar content and the link to my portfolio because I still understand the rejection

https://stock.adobe.com/es/contributor/208977766/Mar

Thanks for the feedback 

[Abambo]

I would have rejected most of them on quality issues. It looks to me, that the moderator had a dark moment, and rejected with reason number 5 instead of 4. Most of them also have a lack of commercial appeal.

As for the similar reason: check your pictures also against what is yet in the database, from other contributors. As @RALPH_L said, that is also a similar-rejection, even that the wordings do not show that. That is an error in the message. The help pages mention it, however.

[Mar5C3D]

Thanks for your comment

[Jill_C]

DSC8317.JPG - focus isn't sharp enough - there's a lack of feather detail. The background seems overexposed, and the object in lower left corner should have been edited out.

DSC8323.JPG - soft focus 

DSC8376.JPG - composition error, both tails are cut off 

[Mar5C3D]

Thanks for your comment. I will try to improve these details in future photographs 🙂

[jacquelingphoto2017]

Hi @Mar5C3D ,

I did not find any similar in your portfolio. I only found two of the files you post to be very close and would be counted as similar. The files are 8322 and 8318. 8320 is different, but might not have commercial appeal except there was something significant about the birds head back. There are however, a vast number of similar in your portfolio. Changing the background of an image does not make it different. Therefore, that will be counted as similar when considering a rejection reason. The following I screen print from a bird search result are all similar.

There are others I didn\t capture which would be counted as too many similar. Four or five variations of these would be enough.  371621926, 371621876, 371621820, 371621854, 371621843 would have been ok. You do not have to remove the others from your portfolio, but in the future, take care not to submit so many similar. What is normally accepted of an image is a landscape, a portrait, a top a bottom, a side a closeup and a wide. Adopt the same principle for drawing.

I find an issue with your keywording that could trigger a similar rejection if the moderator should choose to do a quick search. Two bird heads, 290835990 and 299776077 though different with eagle tag. The first bird seem to be two different bids in one, eagle and hawk. Having others tagged the same way will cause the moderator to conclude there's too many eagle heads. Your tags must correctly describe the image they are attached to.

Looking at your files there are also other issues. The first file is over exposed, and seem to have a white balance and a contrast issue.  The second seem to also have a contrast issue. it blends in too much with the background and would be too difficult to remove. The third bird is purple instead of black. The fifth is nice but not completely in focus and the beak of the bird in the front blends in with the flower without a edge definition.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

[Mar5C3D]

Thank you so much for the comments. I will try to take all these details into account in the future so that I can continue to expand my portfolio.

[jacquelingphoto2017]

Hi @Mar5C3D ,

One other point, submitting multiple bird heads at a time or in succession, might also trigger similar rejections if the moderator do not take the time to note that the birds are different.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

[Abambo]

Hi @Mar5C3D ,

Similar rejection only apply to your portfolio and not the entire Adobe database.

By @jacquelingphoto2017

Jacquelin,

That's not what Mat said years ago. And it does not reflect the Adobe rejections. However, the similar rejection for this reason is mostly limited to assets abundantly in the database, like sunrises, flowers, clouds, etc. 

[jacquelingphoto2017]

@Abambo ,

Please check my DM.