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Participating Frequently
March 19, 2025
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Allow sorting and filtering library assets by Licensed, Unlicensed, or Non-Stock

  • March 19, 2025
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Hello! I would love, love, LOVE to be able to filter and sort files in my Adobe libraries by what kind of license they have: Licensed (from Adobe Stock), Unlicensed (also from Adobe Stock), or Non-Stock (anything else). We can already do this in the Stock site's library, but not in the CC Desktop App library, or the CC online equivalent library, or in Bridge. But sadly the Stock site doesn't let us move licensed images from one library or group to another - at least, not easily enough that I'd have found it within the last few years.

 

In other words, I would love to have one designated place I can access and manage my Adobe Stock library in detail. Currently different important features are split across several different places - the Stock site, the CC central hub app (whether desktop or online), and Bridge. But if I could do all those features at once in just one software/site/program? Oh, I'd swoon.

 

Here's some screenshots to illustrate what I mean.

 

CC Desktop

Here's the CC Desktop app library interface for one of my libraries of Stock images, unsorted and unfiltered.

And here's the sort options for that library in this interface.

But I can move files here from one library to another.

 

Stock Site

Meanwhile, here's the Stock site's interface for the same library.

That same library, filtered to just have Unlicensed.

And the same again, but filtered to just Licensed.

Here's one of my licensed pictures. There's no option here to move it to another library.

 

Bridge Library

And here's the same library in Bridge.

And here's the Filter options. These do not include anything about licenses.

And here's the sort options. Again, no mention of licenses.

Bridge also allows moving files from one library to another.

 

Request

I'd love to have all of these options together at once in one of these platforms, if not in all three. Specifically, that's the functional option to do all of these:

  • Move files from one library to another
  • Sort by Licensed, Unlicensed, or Non-Stock
  • Filter by Licensed, Unlicensed, or Non-Stock

 

Thank you!

2 replies

Participating Frequently
June 21, 2025

Alright, thank you so much Amitej! Yes I would be very happy to discuss this with Adobe teams. I think that Bridge would be the best first place to do this with, knowing how versatile, technically flexible, and useful it already is. If I'm going to be managing a bunch of technical file library things anyways, and if only some of them come from the Adobe Stock site (whether or not they're licensed) and some may be on my computer but not in Adobe cloud storage, I think Bridge is probably the intuitive first place informed users will turn to for a central hub for detailed, bulk file management.

 

Bonus points if in the process, the team makes it so I can resize the length of the "Move to..." panel in Bridge. Currently I can scroll, but much like how in InDesign or Illustrator I can adjust the side panel lengths, I'd love to extend this panel longer than its default AND for it to retain that length when I open it up again later. The more libraries I have to sort Stock art I'm considering using, the more unwieldy this limitation becomes. It's very easy for me to frequently scroll past the library I want to select if I'm using my mouse's scroll wheel, and quickly gets tedious if I have to click and drag the on-screen scroll bar with my cursor.

 

Here's a screenshot of the panel I'm referring to, from Bridge > Libraries > right click an image > Move to...

 

Amitej S
Community Manager
Community Manager
May 26, 2025

Hi @Andrew Welker, Welcome to our community, and thanks for taking the time to share this request! We'll take it up with the product team, and they might contact you asking for more details on this. 

 

Best!