Adobe wants to give you US$50 worth of professional, high-resolution stock images right now. We’re talking about high-quality, curated photos, illustrations, vectors, graphics, and more from a vast collection of over 40 million assets to choose from.
No, really – they do… If you try out the new Adobe Stock (also known as Fotolia) by the end of November, Adobe will credit your account for the 10 free premium images you can use in the next 30 days. You can select from any of the 40,000,000+ that you want (try searching right now just to see!), and use them to jump-start your creative projects – or for any purpose in virtually any project anywhere.
The standard license to use or edit this content is royalty-free and granted in perpetuity, without geographical restrictions or expiration dates. Adobe Stock works beautifully together with the CC apps (see demonstation below), but you don’t need a Creative Cloud membership to use it (not even the free level of CC), or even to be using Adobe software at all… All you need is an Adobe ID, which can be quickly created for free.
Normally with Adobe Stock, you get 10 photos to use on a Monthly basis for US$49.99 per month. With the Annual Plan, your price is discounted to $29.99/month – and as noted above, your first month is automatically refunded if you sign up for this plan by November 30th*:
At any time before the end of your first month, if you don’t want to continue with Stock at the lower price, then you can cancel the service and owe nothing at all. If you wish to continue your Annual plan subscription, then any unused images will roll over between months (up to 120 total) for as long as your Stock membership remains active.
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Adobe Stock is Seamlessly Integrated into Your Workflow
In addition to the rich depth of the catalog and ease of quickly finding the right high-impact image for your needs, Adobe Stock is also already deeply integrated into the CC tools…
You can use an unlimited number of watermarked Stock preview images in your projects and designs – and launch your search right from within your favorite apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and more. Then if you decide to license any particular image(s), you can do it inside those Adobe tools with a single click, without changing any of the work you’ve created.
Once you license an image, the watermarked version is replaced with the full-resolution version using the power of CreativeSync – and the image will be automatically updated wherever you have used it throughout your project, saving you hours of rework. The Stock asset can be saved directly to a Creative Cloud Library and is immediately available on your Desktop as well as Adobe mobile applications.
Check out this 90-second demo – it is so quick, slick and easy to use:
For more details, including the step-by-step walkthrough of how to seamlessly use Adobe Stock from inside your CC products, see this guide: Using Adobe Stock in Design Workflows.
And if you’re part of a larger organization, then you can use the group-enabled capabilities of Adobe Stock (such as pooled images) to collaborate together with your coworkers on larger projects using Creative Cloud for Teams.
What’s more, there is a big slate of new Adobe Stock features arriving very soon (later this year) – including support for video footage and integration with more tools – and you can read all about what’s coming here.
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Are You a Photographer or Designer? Sell Your Work on Adobe Stock
On top of being an Adobe Stock customer, you can also easily become a contributor as well – and set yourself up to make money by doing so. There are no registration or portfolio management fees, and you’ll be able to showcase your work to millions of buyers around the world, 24/7. Thanks to huge daily sales volumes and royalties of up to 63% of the sales price (depending on the form of purchase), you could potentially earn thousands of dollars every month.
Just submit your best original work, and if it’s accepted after a short review period, then you’ll receive a royalty every time one of one of your images or designs is sold through the service – via both Adobe Stock and Fotolia.
You can learn more about becoming a contributor here, plus get some great and helpful tips for success here.
Terry White: Video Review of Adobe Stock
If you have any additional questions, you’ll probably find them answered in the Adobe Stock FAQ.
* This offer available in North America (excluding Quebec), United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland (excluding N. Ireland), Australia, New Zealand, and Japan; limit one per customer.
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