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Similar Content Rejection issue

Community Beginner ,
Jul 21, 2025 Jul 21, 2025

If I upload this image. Will it be similar content and rejection?

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Community Expert , Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

Let's put it this way: The image at the top was rejected a couple of weeks ago for being too similar. The image below it was accepted a couple of days ago. In other words, we have no control over this seemingly random and illogical rejection reason. Just submit, and hope for the best.

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

Do your homework yourself. Search the database and read the other posts in this forum. We have already said, how to avoid, if at all possible, "similar content" rejections.  

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

I saw and did, also tried the lot methods and rejected. I always check similar before upload.  Some images get rejected. But some images are accepted even if they re look same. So im confused.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 23, 2025 Jul 23, 2025
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I saw and did, also tried the lot methods and rejected. I always check similar before upload.  Some images get rejected. But some images are accepted even if they re look same. So im confused.


By @akshanz


Cat images are similar to other cat images. All possible cat images are in the database. There is nothing you can do about that. Chances are high that your cat images, any cat images fail moderation. If that does not depress you, keep submitting. 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 25, 2025 Jul 25, 2025

Sure, Thank you Abambo!

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

Let me see what the fortune tellers say. With cat pictures, chances are high to earn that refusal reason. 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

Why not look for a topic that isn't already completely saturated in the Adobe stock database?

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Explorer ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

That would be hell of a task 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

But any effort in that direction is better than uploading more pictures of cats, dogs, and sunsets which are all understood to be at saturation levels...

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

@Bardhok.N wrote:

That would be hell of a task 


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Community Expert ,
Jul 23, 2025 Jul 23, 2025
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That would be hell of a task 


By @Bardhok.N

The simple to shot images are all in the database. That's a fact.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

You are competing with over 19 MILLION similar images. 

What do YOU think will happen?  🙄

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

But! It's different right? Whats the point of similar content. I see it's a cat and over 19 million images in it. thats fine but mine is different. So how the similar content works? AI decide?

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Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2025 Jul 22, 2025

Let's put it this way: The image at the top was rejected a couple of weeks ago for being too similar. The image below it was accepted a couple of days ago. In other words, we have no control over this seemingly random and illogical rejection reason. Just submit, and hope for the best.

 

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Advocate ,
Jul 23, 2025 Jul 23, 2025

Nice images Daniel ...

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 25, 2025 Jul 25, 2025
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That's what I think too. All the submission approvals now are a luck by chance. Thank you daniellei4510 

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Jul 23, 2025 Jul 23, 2025

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Community Expert ,
Jul 24, 2025 Jul 24, 2025

@oleschwander :

 

Why are you shoing us these erronous cats in an overall?

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