Adobe Stock - The extensive image and visual asset library you didn't know you needed.
April 08, 2021
Adobe Stock - The extensive image and visual asset library you didn't know you needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Stock
The Communications department for the McCormick Foundation and Cantigny Park uses Adobe Stock to fill in our image collection where we have thin spots or for programs and events that we're running for the first time and don't yet have photography for. Cantigny Park also uses a lot of seasonal imagery. Adobe Stock helps us fill those gaps.
- Adobe Stock's search engine does a great job of showing similar images to what I'm looking at. They offer a wide variety of poses/shots for a single subject, so it's nice to have choices on subtle variations in pose, angle, aspect ratio, etc.
- Adobe Stock is always very clear whether an image is on the standard or premium license.
- Adobe Stock makes it easy to re-download previously licensed images.
- Sometimes search results in Adobe Stock return too many images, many of which aren't relevant to my search (at least in my own mind). That occasionally creates the need to do a lot of sifting.
- My organization has multiple initiatives that focus on teenagers. Images of diverse teens and pre-teens are often difficult to find, although I find this to be true of most stock image sites.
- Logins for Adobe Stock are tied to our enterprise Creative Cloud accounts, which makes it easy to use and keep track of downloaded assets.
- Because the Stock and Creative Cloud accounts are all tied together, it's also easy to keep track of which images are being used by the organization and where.
- Sheer volume of options is a big plus with Adobe Stock. The images may not be as high in quality as something you'd buy from Getty, but they're all professional quality images and there are always plenty of options for any given subject or search query.
- We're a non-profit organization, so we're not keeping track of sales, but having an arsenal of images at our disposal has made our internal clients and colleagues very happy.
- Our organization has some specific photography needs that require us to take a lot of our own pictures for authenticity, but having a large library of images for more general occasions saves us a lot of time and effort and lessens the need for self-generated content.
Adobe Stock hits an important middle ground between expensive photo licensing sites like Getty Images and free, but generally mediocre-quality photo licensing sites like Pixabay or Wikimedia Commons. It saves the time of doing the research to make sure that our organization isn't illegally using a copyrighted work while also offering a wide variety of medium- to high-quality assets.
Do you think Adobe Stock delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Adobe Stock's feature set?
Yes
Did Adobe Stock live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Adobe Stock go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Adobe Stock again?
Yes