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Adobe Stock

Score8.9 out of 10

107 Reviews and Ratings

What is Adobe Stock?

Adobe Stock consists of curated asset collections that allow users to explore diverse collections of high-resolution, royalty-free, stock assets for use in digital projects.

Categories & Use Cases

Adobe Stock has got your back!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I create videos and graphics for the Athletic program at an NCAA Division II University. I regularly need stock photos and templates for special graphics and unique content. Adobe Stock provides what we need for the occasion. Adobe has a wide range of images, backgrounds, templates, and even short videos that perfectly fit any desired use.

Pros

  • Stock Images
  • Backgrounds
  • Stock Video

Cons

  • Better ways to search for specific items
  • More detailed tagging
  • Even more categories

Most Important Features

  • Accessibility
  • Quality
  • Quantity

Return on Investment

  • Everything has been positive, the feedback from the graphics we used Adobe Stock on has been amazing.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Shutterstock

Other Software Used

Adobe After Effects, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Premiere Pro

Find that unique image

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Stock helps you find images of high quality at a price. The images are good because of their high resolution, massive variety, and strict standards. They are free of common defects like poor lighting. We want to use the images for making digital and paper flyers. Search is good, and it is easy to see your history in case you need to download your pictures again. The files are large in size which takes care of the blurry pictures found in low-resolution images. The selection of images is ideal for big events where you want to attract a lot of attention. There are many images available on Google search, but Adobe Stock filters out the common and boring images which are unique to their platform.

Pros

  • Search
  • Easy to redownload previous images
  • Wide selection of images

Cons

  • Price
  • More Free pictures

Most Important Features

  • Variety
  • Quality
  • Search

Return on Investment

  • It is expensive once you have used your 10 free downloads per month.
  • Impressive number of images can help you find the right one.
  • Clients usually give positive comments about the images.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Pixabay and Pexels

Other Software Used

Pexels, Adobe Audition, Azure Virtual Machines

Adobe Stock Great Option

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Adobe Stock is great if you need a basic, but polished-looking stock photo. Some options are a bit too "stock photo" (as in they're a bit obvious), but the library is lare so if you're specific and spend some time searching you'll likely find what you're needing. Easy to use!

Pros

  • Large Library
  • Ease of Use

Cons

  • Some scream "stock photo"
  • specifications for what photo you want

Return on Investment

  • Positive Design Feedback
  • Lacks Specification

Usability

Alternatives Considered

iStock, from Getty Images, Canva and Pixabay

Other Software Used

Bonsai, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Google Drive

The BEST Place for Licensed Images!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Adobe Stock to find images for sales and marketing collateral, client presentations and proposals, company websites, social media pages, graphics, and more. We represent four different industries, so finding quality images to reflect our ideal clients are key to conveying a professional image in our client facing materials.

Pros

  • Professional images.
  • Quality images.
  • Variety of images.
  • Various angles and versions of same image.

Cons

  • Less foreign images and more United States, American images.
  • No option to filter out European images of vehicles.
  • More images of vehicles and different types.

Most Important Features

  • Licensed images for print.
  • Search images.
  • Graphics and images in one place.

Return on Investment

  • Allowed me to find quality images without searching the web forever.
  • Helped close deals with professional proposals.
  • Aided digital sales.

Usability

Other Software Used

Smartsheet, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe InDesign

Adobe Stock a creative library with high quality and right assets

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As an animation company we do alot of projects including video where we need to find the right video with right quality so we use Adobe Stock, it is easy to use with a large library of high quality premium stock videos and vector files. we usually get vector files and video for our work, it helps us to get the creative needs fulfilled without spending a lot of time recording or animating in our studio.

Pros

  • its vector files library helps us to create social media post infographics and animations.
  • its video library helps us to deliver great quality presentations and video to our clients.
  • the library of Adobe Stock is far better than any of its competitor and its really easy to use. we get the exact same amount of features we usually need so its a good solution.

Cons

  • the user interface of Adobe Stock library is very basic than its competitor but it is fairly simple to use than others.
  • sometimes when we want to get see the other items for specific users it is bit difficult than other stock websites.
  • the template library need a bit improvements but it is finest one, because you dont need a lot of files floating around you just need the finest and it has but still we need more finest. so that was the gap for me.

Return on Investment

  • in early stages of our business we usually have to self create everything but after choosing Adobe Stock our work was easier creativity is improved.
  • now we don't have to worry about real stock footage with Adobe Stock we have a rich quality library of creative assets.
  • our productivity is improved we are delivering projects faster.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Shutterstock, Storyblocks, iStock and from Getty Images

Other Software Used

iStock, from Getty Images, Procreate, Microsoft 365, Adobe Audition, Adobe Animate, Toon Boom Harmony