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Participant
Nov 25, 2025 9:32 PM UTC
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Can't locate specific image — originally found in stock.adobe search

I saw this image come up in a search and used it in a design comp — now the client wants this image, but I'm unable to now locate it for high resolution download. The image ID is also not availalble. Yes, I did a reverse image lookup and it yields only similar images, not this one. Shouldn't it locate this exact image? What gives? Same goes for reverse lookup on google: the only thing that comes up is on an asian version of freepik.com.
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Participant
Dec 10, 2025 5:58 PM UTC

Bugs are frustrating, and that's what I'd call this — a bug. I always try to capture an asset ID if I think an image might get used, but every now and then it gets missed...and you run into this. Sometimes Adobe fixes bugs, sometimes you live with them a long time before they get enough notice for something to happen, and sometimes they persist forever.

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Participant
Dec 10, 2025 5:56 PM UTC

That's probably true, if you have the asset ID. As explained in the original post, I do not.

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Participating Frequently
Dec 10, 2025 3:33 PM UTC

This is a constant frustration of mine. Adobe Stock does not seem to have a reverse image search; it only yields similar images. And somehow, it does not find the exact image even though it is technically the most similar.

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Abambo
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Nov 27, 2025 1:54 AM UTC

The asset ID should give you the path to the image.

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ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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Nov 25, 2025 9:47 PM UTC

Update: I went to freepik.com (english language version) and performed a reverse lookup there — success, found the image immediately. Fortunately this same client has a freepik account so I downloaded the image there. Maybe you're thinking I got confused and originally found the image on freepik and went back to stock.adobe thinking it was there — but no, this image came up in my stock.adobe search yesterday, there's no doubt about it. So I'll call this a search bug and move on now.

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