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Forum|Forum|1 year ago
June 26, 2024
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Well i have just gone from having 100% accepted to 100% rejected so far on my last submission, nothing different with way images were taken, also the images rejected were accepted with three other micro stock agencies, just come to conclusion that someone just doesnt like your topic of image

Correct answer Abambo

I believe that with the development of AI, they will remove low-quality layers and even remove them from the servers, as they have already started. Because there is no place for all this stuff, money for servers.

I believe that with the development of AI, they will remove low-quality layers and even remove them from the servers, as they have already started. Because there is no place for all this stuff, money for servers.

By @MliO111

Removing bad assets from the database is cost intensive. It's always more expensive to correct errors than to avoid them.

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MliO111

Inspiring

I have still same level of rejections.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Most comments on this thread are pretty much conjecture, having not seen examples of two or three of the rejected images. Maybe post one that WAS accepted, and another that wasn't, since you mentioned there is nothing different in the way they were taken?

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Nancy OShea

Community Expert

New Submssion Guidelines could be a factor.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/submission-guidelines.html

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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MliO111

Inspiring

I guess you talkin about it?

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Worker404

Inspiring

Man, it's not your problem, the problem is really popular here, Many have complained about these problems, and I was one of them as well. At times, photos full of errors may be accepted normally. At other times, you may spend a lot of time preparing and fixing the photos, and then they are rejected in one batch for no apparent reason.

I don't know why. This happens to me a lot. I upload a good amount of photos and they are all rejected without even a single photo being accepted.I've made guesses that one of the employees is rejecting all the photos at once as revenge or to terminate his employment, I don't know.

Just try not to upload them to the site at once. Upload one image and then submit it,upload the other one as well. Do not upload a number of them at once.

Jill_C

Community Expert

Your premise that a moderator is rejecting your images as an act of revenge is unfounded and ridiculous. However, I can imagine that if a Moderator is reviewing a large batch from one Contributor, and they start to see rejectable errors, they might assume the same quality in the rest if the batch and perhaps do not scrutinize each so carefully after a while... The advice here in the forum has consistently been to submit only small batches at a time. That has long been my strategy and has allowed me to earn a high acceptance rate.

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Worker404

Inspiring

You are right, I made this hypothesis as a somewhat serious joke as to why they rejected these photos. I know that he is not taking revenge, as you said he may find some errors in the photos so he will assume that the rest are the same.This is not very fair, because with the click of a button he may reject all your efforts, but this is the system we cannot change it, so if you notice I advised the man to post one photo at a time As for the second hypothesis that I put forward, about that he wants to complete his work faster, so he rejects it, it is consistent with what you said. He may see some pictures and judge the rest based on them, whether good or bad, in order to complete his work.

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Paper Ferry

Participating Frequently

I'm having exactly the same issue. From 90% - 100% acceptance to 0%. In the past few days they rejected batches of my AI images without flaws, and contributor support refused to give me any explanation except for "our reviewers are highly trained and adhere to quality standards when reviewing". Then I sent them links from one of their featured contributor with AI content having 4 fingers and all kinds of distortions, as an example of bad quality content being approved by these highly trained reviewers. And guess what - crickets from support and another batch of mine got rejected:) None of this makes sense, I find contributor support at Adobe Stock being very bad and unhelpful. This is no support at all. Also, now I'm almost positive that my files are being targeted for rejections after I complained.

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Welcome to stock. I know. It can suck. But sending examples to support of poor quality images is not going to help. Contributors have recently begun receiving that X number of their images are being removed from the database, indicating that Adobe is doing a deep purge of images that a) should never have been accepted in the first place and, b) images that no longer comply with their latest revised criteria of submitted images.

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david_maddockAuthor

Participating Frequently

Been doing stock for few years now and as said before it’s not the first time adobe has done this, the only saving grace is, that I tag and caption all my images in Lightroom so as I submit to other libraries I don’t really lose much time after the adobe submission, what I will say is the adobe rejection is vague compared to shutterstock, their rejection is much more specific and it did help to improve the quality of my submissions to the point of hardly getting any rejections now, it’s only a hobby which pays for a few camera bits so it’s pointless getting to annoyed, might change in next few submissions if not you just don’t bother
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MliO111

Inspiring

I had a similar situation. Two conclusions I made:
1) I was inattentive to details. The overall quality was the same. But the details were wrong in small ways.
2) The rules may change. Previously they accepted photos with 6 fingers 🙂

Abambo

Community Expert

2) The rules may change. Previously they accepted photos with 6 fingers 🙂

By @MliO111

They never intended to accept those. There was no rule change, only better trained moderators.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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MliO111

Inspiring

Yes, you are 100% right.

Oleksandra Osadcha

Participating Frequently

Hi! What was the reason for the rejection? Perhaps you accidentally made a mistake while uploading assets? For example, you mixed up the asset type or made mistakes in keywords.

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Werner22361781mr90

Known Participant

That's no surprise to me. It happend to me before.

What you could do: check if there's REALLY something worng: dust spots, unsharpness, chromical abberation,...

If not: it might be yet antoher AI like rejection and Adobe never reacts on this.

You might keep it 'low' for the uploads a couple of months and then try again , eventually with these same assets.

It worked for me and got this as a tip on this forum.

Sometimes they also 'change' a bit their minds, especially when rejecting for 'not commercial'. E.g. they not anymore in typical western Europe agriculture landscapes or so ...

But as you know: Adobe And Their Acceptance Team act like a real Louis XIV.

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MliO111

Inspiring

As far as I know you may be blocked for resubmitting.

Abambo

Community Expert

As far as I know you may be blocked for resubmitting.

By @MliO111

Resubmitting unmodified assets: yes. But not if you resubmit from time to time. My experience is, that refusals are quite consistent.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

daniellei4510

Community Expert

Having images accepted by other micro stocks is no guarantee they will be accepted by Adobe. It means nothing. Say you submitted 10 different images to 10 different photo contests. Would you win all 10 of them?

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daniellei4510

Community Expert

We'd be happy to look at a couple of the rejections to see what might be the issue.

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david_maddockAuthor

Participating Frequently

In all honesty put any image in front of you and you will find fault, all I know in my own mind is that the images I submitted were of no different quality of ones that have been accepted by adobe previously and as I have already said these rejected images were accepted by three other micro stock libraries

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Abambo

Community Expert

(...) and as I have already said these rejected images were accepted by three other micro stock libraries
By @david_maddock

This is not three other micro stock libraries.

Moderators do not moderate on personal preferences, but on constantly improving quality aspects. There is no refusal that says "I don't like it".

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Well that sucks. Some fly must have gotten into the ointment somewhere.

Have you checked your equipment? When was the last time you cleaned your camera sensors and lenses?

What were the rejection reasons given?

Other microstock services are not Adobe Stock. You can't compare apples to alligators so don't even try.

Show us 1 or 2 of the rejected images and the rejection reason. Maybe you overlooked something.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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