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darrenj45845276
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April 16, 2025
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Adobe Stock Ratings System

  • April 16, 2025
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Adobe Stock really needs to implement a Ratings System so WE can provide feedback on Bad Stock Images, so others can avoid downloading the same file.  The Ratings Systems a simple 5 star system with comments section would serve to help the monthly subscribers, but also be a warning to content providers that you can't just upload pure crap.  I run across so many vectors that once you download and open the file you can tell it was nothing more than an image conversion from something already on the web.  We download vectors from Stock assuming it will be an original.  AI has only made things worse, many files are not at print resolution and should be labeled as such or at least with ratings I could read the reviews.  There is no way Adobe can monitor the quality of the ever growing library, we should have a way to help police the quality.  Ratings are such a common things, not sure why you have not implemented it already.

8 replies

Nancy OShea
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 25, 2026

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure. IMO, a ratings & comments system would become an abuse magnet for bots and bad actors to exploit.  Nothing good will come from it. Besides, there are better ways to report assets that fail to meet expectations.

 

List the asset ID number in the Stock customer forum, along with the problems you encountered with it. Adobe will have their internal review team take a closer look at it. 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
July 24, 2026

Agree … We already have a report button, but it focuses on copyright issues. All we need is to add to this a quality inspection routine so that assets with issues get surfaced to the right teams and it would save people needing to report individually through these forums!

yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 24, 2026

If there is an issue with an asset, please post the asset number and details of the problem to the community.
Adobe staff members will review it.

July 24, 2026

This is a feature request thread. Hence my post.

We shouldn’t have to resort to visiting a community forum to log issues with individual assets. I like the rating approach as you can then naturally add to the filtering a simple 5 star system. The issue of Contributors getting rejected at the point of submission would be replaced would with one of rejection by the community.

It could co-exist with an enhancement to the Report Issue through the addition of a number of quality type to report against for deeper inspection by Adobe (or re-inspection if you believe these things get checked at the point of submission!).

A few immediate quality types to be added along with the existing copyright options would be to report an asset as:

AI generated - to log items which clearly have some form of AI generation and are circumventing the existing filter.

Mis-labelled items - to catch things like flattened/outlined paths specifically where assets are marked as having editable strokes. Especially importing for line style icons.

Low quality items - where the quality of an item renders them unusable perhaps due to the size of the item, the blurriness of a photo, or some other such reason.

The problem we face is both time and effort - we need better filtration and reporting to counter this. Case in point here (Data analytics dashboard UI on dark theme, showing charts, graphs, tables for comprehensive business intelligence and performance monitoring Stock Vector | Adobe Stock) The preview looked great, but as soon as you open it you realised the vectors are either AI generated, or the asset likely had AI generation as a bitmap and the resulting material was image traced. Either way it’s poor and unusable.

An alternative to expanding the remit of the Report Issue button would be the inclusion of a zoom loupe so that we can inspect assets more clearly prior to downloading them.

Coupled with better information posted automatically alongside assets much like that of Illustrator’s Document Info panel whereby we can see whether something is CMYK / RGB and details like how many open/closed paths, number of points, what the artboard dimensions are and units 

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 17, 2025

Sorry, but during submission, each asset gets checked. The issue here is that the human moderators don't do their job all the time. That's why a lot of bad quality AI assets are in the database. However, the contributor side starts to complain about the "massive" rejections. So Adobe is reacting.

 

A rating system is generally a bad idea, for multiple reasons. A report button, however would be great.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
jstclair2
Participant
June 24, 2026

I agree, a report button is definitely needed. I just downloaded vector art that looked good on screen but was completely useless once opened in Illustrator. 

yamato713108855
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 25, 2026

If the file is labeled as being in Illustrator format but actually contains only placed raster data, please post the details—including the asset number—to the community or contact support.
If you mean that changing the colors is difficult because the paths were created using AI or an auto-trace function, this does not violate posting rules, so the item cannot be returned.