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Image Quality Going Down

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
April 24, 2023
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The number of images I encountered recently that looked like they were from cheap stock photo sites was alarming. I started noticing this months ago; my gut feeling was that Adobe had bought a small stock photo company and migrated their photos over, but that really ends up devaluing Adobe’s reputation. There are more and more of these bad assets in your library and it’s forcing me to reconsider my Adobe Stock subscription. Some were so bad, I find it hard to fathom how they got through reviewers.

If I want quality fonts, I know I can confidently turn to Adobe Fonts. I can’t say the same lately for Adobe Stock.

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Jill_C

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By the way, you are not in general addressing anyone at Adobe when you post here in the Community Forum. Though Adobe employees do come to the forum from time to time, it is primarily supported by other Adobe customers/users.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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fuzencoAuthor

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Understood.

Jill_C

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Are you perhaps seeing Generative AI assets which you consider to be "bad assets"? Many Buyers are complaining about these types of assets polluting the database, and we hope that Adobe will soon provide a Filter than allows Buyer to eliminate such assets from their search results.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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fuzencoAuthor

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No, I was talking photos that are not AI generated. I am not saying that there are 1 for every 10 photos I browse, but the fact I’m even commenting is because it’s a real-life experience. Photos so bad in conceptual execution and basic lighting, with what appeared no regard to actually trying.

Abambo

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We are seeing many bad assets on the contributor side, but I do not know what generally gets accepted, except that I know what quality my assets have to get accepted. And I have to say that some of mine assets are selling successfully, even that I think that the work is not my best. So, someone seems to have a need for such assets.

Examples are always better. You can point with your finger to a specific asset.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

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Contributors are complaining that their assets get vetted more stringently (which I can't confirm, but it's a point of discussion on the contributor's side). My contributions are vetted as before. But I normally submit selected high-quality pictures. So, my portfolio grows only slowly.

I don't know, however, what you understand under “cheap stock photo”.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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fuzencoAuthor

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You don’t understand “cheap stock photo”? Surely you can spot a photo that doesn’t meet basic standards for a _quality_ stock site. “Cheap” is never a worthy term to associate anything with. “Inexpensive” would be a more suitable term when it calls for it, but never cheap.

Abambo

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I understand cheap stock photos! But I don't know what you understand under that term. You should give me an example of a cheap stock photo.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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