How to Remove a Photo

You can remove your photos depending on their current moderation and publication status.

The available options differ for draft, rejected, pending, and approved public images.

Removing Draft or Rejected Photos

If your photo is currently marked as Draft or Rejected, you can delete it yourself at any time.

To access the photo edit page, you can:

If you need help locating your photo, please see the help article:

How to Edit Photo Title, Caption, Description and Meta Data

On the photo edit page, you will find the Delete button on the right-hand side below the image.

Once you confirm deletion:

Important: This action is permanent and cannot be undone or restored.

Photos currently marked as Pending cannot be deleted directly by users.

This restriction exists because the image may already be in the moderation workflow.

If you need to remove a pending image, you must contact the site administrator using the messaging system.

Your message should clearly include:

Depending on the moderation stage, the administrator may:

reject the photo before approval
remove the image from the server if the request arrives immediately after approval but before the image becomes public

Approved public images cannot be deleted immediately.

Instead of a Delete button, you will see a Request Delete button.

When you request deletion:

Approved images remain on our servers for 14 days after a deletion request.

This waiting period exists to allow processing of any pending sales, downloads, or administrative checks.

If no sales have been made for the image:

If the image has generated sales:

the original public image will be removed
a resized watermarked reference copy may be retained in our secure non-public archive

This archive copy is kept for record-keeping, licensing verification, and sales administration purposes only.