First item - Mockup hard rejected, need your opinion

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Dear all,

I start selling on graphic river last week, and I submit a city map mockups.
Please, take a look to some of the mockups submited:

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1.jpg2999×2000 2.62 MB

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2.jpg2999×2000 2.74 MB

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3.jpg2999×2000 2.78 MB

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4.jpg2120×1414 2.35 MB

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5.jpg2120×1414 2.19 MB

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I uploaded the mockups last friday, and in 2 days I received a succesful message (wow :grinning:):
“Congratulations! Your submission ‘City Map Eight-fold Mockup’ has been approved for sale on GraphicRiver. You can view it online here:”

But yesterday, I received another mail that explain the item was disabled because a mistake in category assignement:
"This item was uploaded to the Presentation Templates category. It is not a Powerpoint Template. Reviewers cannot change top-level categories when an item is in the queue. It would be better suited to the Product Mock-ups category. Please read the category upload instructions and resubmit this as a new item to the Product Mock-ups category.

So today in the morning, I re-uploaded the Item, and this time I choosed the right category. But in the very day, I received an hard rejection mail about the standard quality and also, it seems that I’m not able to re-submit the item:
“Thank you for your submission. We have completed our review of “City Map eight-fold Mockup” and unfortunately we found it isn’t at the quality standard required to move forward, and you won’t be able to re-submit this item again.”

What you think guys? To be honest I don’t think the work is rubbish, but i’d really appreciate your opinion.
I saw other mockups on graphic river, and I must say, at this point, I don’t know how to reach the “Standard quality”, and I know that on graphic river there are very powerful and wonderful mockups from Ultra-talented people, but I also saw very simple and standard mockups, stuff that you can find in the internet for free, like photograph with simple design putted on.

Some opinion about?

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Someone?

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The shadows are the area I see improvements can be made. On the very top one, the shadow looks odd and a bit messy, it’s not clear what’s causing the shadow to look like that. With most of the other shadows, they look a bit blobby and unrealistic in places if you see what I mean? Overall I think the design could probably be polished up a bit more to look overall cleaner and better.

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Thak you dude for your reply!
Yes, maybe I need to improve and clean up the shadows.
And in general, if I understand what you mean, you think that all those hard lights, bending and paper torsion shoul be removed? I made these effects to reach an higher realistic, let’s say photographic effect.
Please, let me know and again, thank you very much for your advices :slight_smile:

P.S.: Do you think that images I putted in smart objects may be caused the rejection?

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I don’t think the smart object images should be a problem, they look good and make a good example. You would be told in the email if there’s a specific issue like that. More likely it was for general quality. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with photographic style, it’s just it should probably have a slightly better than life look to it. Like a photo that’s been touched up a bit. This isn’t really my area though. It’s always a good idea to browse through items in the category to get an idea of what’s acceptable.

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Guys Can you Help me out here

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i tried to improve as you adviced, and I should really appreciate your opinion about.
Please, found some example of improvements on shadows, lights and pattern modifications:
before>after images:
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