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heidsterrrr
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April 3, 2025
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Filtering out images with words?

  • April 3, 2025
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Anyone have any tips or tricks on how to filter out images with words on them? Sometimes I search for a relatively simple concept (I've found actually including the word "concept" narrows things down greatly) ... but way too often, there are words all over the images -- often misspelled words, which is super unfortunate. Anyway, if I want words ... I can add them myself related to my design needs. I always would prefer clean images.

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heidsterrrrAuthor
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April 5, 2025

Thanks, all. I know there are typically 1,000s of images with the keywords I'm using ... my point is that when there are 100,000s of results; it would be much easier to simply filter out as many unwanted images as possible. 

Even if I could use "-words" in the search phrase but that hasn't seemed to work. 

Side note: I've also tried "-beard" lol ... it's shocking how many "corporate executive" males have facial hair in the Adobe collection.  I'd guess 90% of them. Just a weird observation. 

    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity Expert
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    April 15, 2025

    May be their "new" search experience helps... 

    My guess: not quite...

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
    Abambo
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    AbamboCommunity Expert
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    April 3, 2025

    There is no such filter that I'm aware of. You could try to suggest this as an idea.

     

    (may be I'm wrong and @Christopher at Adobe has some insight)

    ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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      CFS the Stock API Guy
      Adobe Employee
      April 3, 2025

      I am not aware of any method to filter out images that have text on them. I know this is a workaround, but the Photoshop Remove tool is excellent at removing distractions like this. The other suggestion is that you can look for images with "Copy Space" (see screenshot), which will include images with large amounts of negative/empty space.

       

        Abambo
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        AbamboCommunity Expert
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        April 5, 2025

        Thanks. @CFS the Stock API Guy for the tip. Photosop is indeed a great tool, but it's not the magic bullet to remove text. Soometimes it works, sometimes it's just an awful lot of work. 

        ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
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