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August 9, 2025
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How do I license but not immediately download Stock images?

  • August 9, 2025
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Hi there. There used to be a button to "License" an image that was different from the "Download" button. I can't find the "License" button anymore. How do I license an image without actually immediately downloading it?

 

My usual work computer is out for repairs, so I'm currently on my janky old laptop for a week or two. I really don't want to be downloading lots of images right now, even though I do want to license them so it's fast and easy to get to work with them when my computer DOES come back.

 

In case the context matters, I've found Stock images I consider getting, then add them to my libraries while still unlicensed as a way to bookmark them and save them for later. So I'm going in to the libraries here on the Stock website. If it can be done on the Creative Cloud desktop app or online app, or if it can be done in Bridge, well, that's good I guess but "you can license things your downloaded app without having to actually download them, but if you license them on the purely-online website where you actually find the images you are required to download them" doesn't make sense, and I don't see any signs or instructions saying that's the case.

 

If they secretly renamed the "License" button to "Download" instead, but it still has the option to license it without downloading, then this post is secretly a feature request to change it back. Especially because (at least in the English version of the site) the "Download" (and license) button is really really easy to confuse with the "Download Preview" button. Unless you know they're different, it'd be pretty easy to think you're downloading a preview but actually spending a credit on an image you weren't sure you wanted yet.

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Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2025

The button still says licence: 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer
Participating Frequently
August 10, 2025

Okay that's weird. Because mine definitely doesn't.

 

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 10, 2025

That may be a difference in your plan. Or that may be a difference of your region. What plan do you have?

 

I always had the download happen immediately after licencing.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer