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Anyone who works in a creative field knows how important it is to have the right media on hand. With a rich library of stock images, videos, and more, you can pick one out for any situation.
But simply having a large library isn’t enough. To streamline your workflow, your stock image library should integrate right into the apps you already use. That’s where Adobe Stock comes in.
What Is Adobe Stock?
Adobe Stock is a service from Adobe that provides 90 million premium and royalty-free images, vectors, videos, templates, and even 3D objects for creative projects. This giant collection makes it easy to always have the right media on hand without having to hunt something down.
Royalty-free means that you can use assets from Adobe Stock without any worries about licensing concerns. If it’s available on Adobe Stock, you can use it in a professional environment without worrying about expiration dates. That means no more wasting time confirming that you have the license to use a piece of media.
If you’re interested in Adobe Stock, you’ll need to sign up for a free Adobe account and choose the right subscription for you, which we’ll discuss below.
Using Adobe Stock
Visit Adobe Stock’s website to start browsing the royalty-free media collection. If you know what you’re interested in, just type a keyword into the Search bar at the top of the page. You’ll see relevant results right away. If you’re not sure what to look for, check out the categories found at the bottom of the page.
Select an image to view basic information about it, such as the resolution, file type, and category. If you’re interested in an image, select Save Preview. You can then choose to save it to a library, download a low-resolution watermarked copy to your PC, or open the image in an Adobe editing app.
This allows you to keep track of images you like (in multiple libraries) and test them out in your projects before committing to downloading them.
On the search page, click View filters on the left side to sift through the results. This lets you select certain image orientations, change the sort order, or search for only certain kinds of videos or photos. Make sure to change the All dropdown box to Videos, 3D, or something else to restrict your search if applicable.
Integration With Creative Cloud
Adobe Stock really shines when you combine it with Creative Cloud. This allows you to easily add stock images, videos, and more to your projects without ever leaving your Creative Cloud apps. You can easily open images from the libraries you’ve created on Adobe Stock’s website. Licensing an image instantly replaces the watermarked version.
To get started, open a Creative Cloud app that integrates with Adobe Stock. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Dreamweaver are all supported. We’ll use Photoshop for this example.
On the right side, you should see a Libraries panel that has images you’ve saved to your libraries. If you don’t see this, open the Window category on the menu bar and select the Libraries entry to show it.
Use the dropdown box to switch between the default My Library and other libraries you’ve created. You can also search for new Adobe Stock images right from this panel. Right-click an image you like and choose Save Preview to add a watermarked version to your collection. Selecting License and Save to will purchase the full version right away.
To use an image, simply drag it onto your current working canvas. You’ll see a low-resolution version of it with a watermark. Make any edits to the image that you wish. When you want to license the full-size version, right-click the photo in your Libraries panel and choose License Image.
If you’ve already purchased a subscription, it will license right away. You can check your remaining image downloads right in the Libraries panel. If you don’t have an Adobe Stock subscription, you’ll see a prompt to make a purchase on the website (see below).
Once licensed, the image will automatically update to the high-quality version with all of your edits preserved.
You don’t need a Creative Cloud subscription to use content from Adobe Stock. However, you’ll miss out on the convenient benefits.
Adobe Stock Pricing
While you’re free to test out Adobe Stock’s vast royalty-free library as much as you like, you’ll need to subscribe to a plan to use the full images. Visit the Adobe Stock Plans page to decide what’s best for you.
The least expensive plan, paid with an annual commitment, costs $29.99 per month for 10 standard assets. If you need more images, you can upgrade to the 40 standard assets plan for $79.99 per month. Both plans include 12 month’s worth of rollover if you don’t use all your assets in a given month.
If you’re not sure yet, you can start a 30-day free trial for either of these plans. Those using Adobe Stock in a team setting should check out Adobe’s teams plan page.
If you want access to Adobe Stock’s Premium Collection or don’t use media frequently, Adobe Stock also offers credits. These let you buy premium images, HD video, and other content on an as-needed basis. For example, with 40 credits (costing $359.99), you could buy 8 premium images or 5 HD videos.
Credits make a great complement to an Adobe Stock plan so you don’t miss out on the content you need.
Adobe Stock Makes Royalty-Free Media Easy
For creative folks who regularly need access to high-quality media, Adobe Stock is extremely useful. It includes access to millions of royalty-free images, videos, vectors, and even templates right inside Creative Cloud apps helps you work more efficiently. Powerful filters let you find exactly what you’re looking for.
And with all of Adobe Stock’s high-quality content coming without royalty concerns, it really is an impressive offering. Anyone who’s spent far too long searching for the perfect stock images should give Adobe Stock a try.
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Adobe Stock is a service that provides designers and businesses with access to millions of high-quality curated and royalty-free photos, videos, illustrations, vector graphics, 3D assets, and templates for all their creative projects. You can purchase Adobe Stock as a multi-asset subscription. Various subscription packages are available.
What is Adobe Stock?
Adobe Stock is a new service that provides designers and businesses with access to 90 million high-quality, curated, royalty-free photos, vectors, illustrations, templates, and 3D assets, for all their creative projects.
The Adobe Stock service is built right into your favorite Adobe desktop apps, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, so you can search, browse, and add images to your Creative Cloud Libraries, and get instant access to your assets across desktop and mobile devices. In Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, to jump-start your creative projects, you can even download artist-designed templates from Adobe Stock right within the New Document dialog boxes.
Adobe Stock assets can be licensed directly from within the Creative Cloud desktop apps or through stock.adobe.com.
What are royalty-free assets?
A royalty-free asset is licensed such that it can be used for any illustrative purpose, even in a professional context, without geographical restrictions or expiration dates.
What is the Adobe Stock Editorial collection?
The Adobe Stock Editorial collection offers images and videos that are newsworthy, timely, and depict real people, events, places, and products.
- Adobe Stock Editorial images are available in two sizes: small image suitable for web use and limited print runs (US$49.99) and full-resolution image with unlimited print runs (US$199.99).
- Adobe Stock Premium Editorial images are the most iconic, recognized images of our time. They have unlimited print runs and are also available in two sizes: premium small image (US$249.99) and premium full-resolution image (US$499.99).
- All Adobe Stock Editorial videos are HD. When licensing Editorial videos, you have an option to purchase either a Standard license with limited viewership rights (US$79.99) or an Enhanced license with unlimited viewership (US$249.99).
You can access editorial assets on the Adobe Stock website or from within the Creative Cloud apps integrated with Adobe Stock. Such assets are marked 'Editorial Use Only'. You may not use editorial assets for commercial purposes, such as advertisements or for reselling products. View all of the terms of use for Adobe Stock here.
What file types are available?
Adobe Stock images are available in JPEG, AI, and EPS file formats. HD videos are available in the MOV format. 4K videos are available in various formats. All 4K videos are also available in HD. Three types of 3D assets are available in Adobe Stock: models (.obj), lights (.exr/.hdr), and materials (.mdl). These assets are supported in several 3D applications.
Adobe Stock also provides artist-designed templates to jumpstart your creative projects. In Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, templates from Adobe Stock are available right within the New Document dialog boxes. Once you license and download a template, you can build on it just as you'd work with any other Photoshop or Illustrator document. You can also find and download Motion Graphics templates from Adobe Stock for use in your Premiere Pro projects. Thousands of template options are now available on the Adobe Stock website.
What resolutions are stock assets available in?
All Adobe Stock content is provided at its highest available resolution. While this resolution depends on the camera used to originally capture the asset, most of the content can accommodate high-quality printed output up to 300 dpi. Vector files can be printed in all formats without loss in quality.
Is video content available on Adobe Stock?
Adobe Stock offers both HD and 4K videos. All 4K videos are also available in HD format.
Are there any special requirements for using 3D models, lights, and materials from Adobe Stock?
3D model, light, and material assets in Adobe Stock are optimized for use in Adobe Dimension in the MDL file format. However, there are certain factors to consider when using these assets in both Dimension and other third-party 3D apps.
Models in third-party 3D apps
- Any application that can import .obj files, including Adobe Photoshop, can load the models. However, the models don't look the same as rendered images on the Adobe Stock website if they're loaded in an environment that doesn't support MDL 1.3 or later.
- Each model has a .mtl file which contains some shader information for applications that don't support MDL. Depending on the application’s importer, some manual texture hookups may be required.
- For best fidelity, these models require a rendering engine that supports MDL 1.3 or later.
Models in Dimension
When using these models with Dimension, there may be minor visual differences between the model as you see it on Adobe Stock and when you use it within the app. These differences are anticipated and will always result in an improved 3D experience.
Do I need a Creative Cloud membership to use Adobe Stock?
No. To download content from Adobe Stock, all you need is an Adobe ID, which can be quickly created for free.
What are the benefits for Creative Cloud members?
Creative Cloud members receive several benefits for Adobe Stock, including seamless integration within your favorite apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and more.
I currently use Creative Suite products; can I still use Adobe Stock?
Yes. Anyone can join and use Adobe Stock on stock.adobe.com.
Can I try an Adobe Stock asset before buying it?
You can try out Adobe Stock images and videos by downloading the low-resolution, watermarked version. No payment is required until you decide to license the asset.
Templates and 3D assets must be licensed before you can download them. Many are free. You can view a large preview of these assets, showing you a detailed view. Descriptive text about each asset is included in the Details pane.
Do I need to create an account to make Adobe Stock purchases?
If you are a new Adobe user, an account is created for you when you make your first purchase. Adobe sends you an email with a receipt for your purchase and a link to set your account password. You must set your password within 72 hours of receiving that email or the link expires. If the link expires, you can go through the Forgot Password workflow to set your password.
After your initial purchase, you can still make purchases on Stock for an hour without setting your password while you go through the delayed account creation workflow. During this time, you won't be able to log in to account management or any other Adobe services until you've set the password. After one hour, you will be logged out and will need to set your password from the email to log in again.
How can I license and download Adobe Stock assets?
You can license and download assets from the Adobe Stock website or from within a Creative Cloud application. For details, see Using the Adobe Stock website.
If you're having trouble while downloading your assets after licensing them, see Unable to download Adobe Stock assets.
What is the Adobe Stock Premium collection?
The Adobe Stock Premium collection contains thousands of hand-picked images from the portfolios of some of the world’s top photographers and agencies. They have the same file types and resolutions as other Adobe Stock images, but have been selected for exceptional content, style, authenticity, and production quality.
All Adobe Stock Premium collection images include an Enhanced License, which allows unlimited print runs. However, Extended Licenses to create derivate products for resale (such as coffee mugs or T-shirts) are only available for Premium images with an Adobe Stock Enterprise account.
Adobe Stock Premium collection are priced at three tiers. You can also license the same images in a smaller size for half of their price. For example, you can license a premium image priced at US$499.99 with dimensions of 6000 px x 4000 px or for US$249.99 with dimensions of 1688 px x 1125 px.
Can I download images from the Adobe Stock Premium collection at a lower size?
Yes. Adobe Stock Premium collection images are currently priced at three tiers. You can also license the same images in a smaller size for half the price. For example, you can license a premium image priced at US$499.99 with dimensions of 6000 px x 4000 px or for US$249.99 with dimensions of 1688 px x 1125 px.
What are credit packs? How can I use them to purchase stock assets?
Credit packs let you purchase assets on Adobe Stock in a flexible and cost-effective way. When you purchase a pack, you have one year to redeem your credits to license specific content such as premium images, videos, editorial images, and other asset types. Credit packs are similar to buying tokens at an arcade: you save money by buying a stack of tokens, and then different games cost different numbers of tokens.
For more information, see FAQ | Credit packs and Subscription plans and Credit packs.
How are templates and 3D assets priced?
Adobe Stock offers a range of price points for templates and 3D assets including some that are free. Any template or 3D asset priced at US$9.99 can also be licensed with a subscription, just as images are licensed.
If you are interested to see templates or 3D content within a specific price segment, refine your search results by applying a price filter.
Where can I find more information about adding assets to Adobe Stock?
For more information about adding assets to Adobe Stock, see Adobe Stock Contributor Help.
How does Adobe Stock integrate with Creative Cloud apps?
Images and videos from the Adobe Stock website can be opened in many Creative Cloud applications with a single click. They may also be saved directly to a Creative Cloud Library, making them immediately available in most of your Creative Cloud desktop and mobile applications.
Adobe Stock can also be launched from within the Libraries panel in Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Dreamweaver. You can also license watermarked previews of Adobe Stock content directly from the Libraries panel in the desktop applications.
For more information, see Using Adobe Stock.
In which Creative Cloud applications can I use Adobe Stock?
Adobe Stock content can be used in any Creative Cloud desktop or mobile application in which a user can place a photo, video, illustration, or graphic. Images can also be saved directly into Creative Cloud Libraries for instant access across apps. The Creative Cloud Libraries feature is currently supported in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Illustrator Draw, Photoshop Sketch, and Comp.
In Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, templates from Adobe Stock are also available from right within the New Document dialog boxes. These templates, designed to jump-start your creative projects, are in the .psdt,.ait, and .indt formats. Once you license and download a template, you can build on it just as you'd work with any other Photoshop or Illustrator document.
Can I share a licensed asset in a Creative Cloud Library?
You can share the licensed asset with employees or subcontractors, provided that they follow all of the license restrictions.
If you transfer the asset or a derivative work to a client, then you must purchase a second license if you intend to use it for the benefit of another client.
How do I use Adobe Stock with Creative Cloud apps that don’t support Creative Cloud Libraries?
Adobe Stock images can be downloaded directly from the website to your computer and opened in your desktop app. For details, see Using the Adobe Stock website.
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