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Why Adobe Stock reject good photos?

Community Beginner ,
Mar 25, 2025 Mar 25, 2025

I retouched a series of photos according to Adobe Stock guidelines, minimal sharpness, denoising, removing chromatic aberration, colour correction... everything a little bit like in their instructions. + minimalist shots with free space, and they still rejected these photos (quality problem) (50 pieces). Is it because they were taken with a Canon 600D which has worse quality and sharpness? I have a lot of photos and I want to upload them before I switch to a Sony mirrorless camera for good, but I'm worried that I'll do the work on Sony and they'll reject everything too. And I think they're really PRO

I was surprised today when Alamy accepted these photos that Adobe Stock rejected. Here they are:

https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1498908.html

What's wrong with them for Adobe?

and at the same time Adobe accepted one of my worst photo with huge chromatic aberration and a terrible shot:

https://stock.adobe.com/pl/images/wooden-obstacle-course-with-hanging-red-wheels-in-public-park/1305...

and at the same time Adobe accepts AI upscaled images with artifacts in the details

I wanted to create Pro portfolio on Adobe but it looks that like they deliberately don't want to accept the best photos

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Community Expert ,
Mar 25, 2025 Mar 25, 2025

As I'm sure you're aware, you are not addressing Adobe here but contributors like yourself. Yes, Adobe sometimes accepts and rejects photos that leave us scratching our heads as to why not and why? If you post two or three here, perhaps we can offer some insights. As for assets being accepted (and even sold) on other sites, we are talking two different animals with two different requirements and standards.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 25, 2025 Mar 25, 2025

ok, but I've read many posts here and I suspect they launched an AI content moderation machine without humans.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 25, 2025 Mar 25, 2025
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Adobe uses human moderators. We have not been advised otherwise.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 25, 2025 Mar 25, 2025

You may have read a post by somone one who only suggested they have.

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