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October 9, 2025
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  • October 9, 2025
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Hello everyone I hope you all are doing great. I am adobe stock contributor. I sell illustrations. I have one question can I sell watercolor hand drawn illustrations after converting it into a vector by image trace tool in adobe illustrator and upload the illustration as an EPS file on Adobe stock?

 

Kindly guide me. If anyone is doing this.

 

I made watercolor illustrations in adobe photoshop and a mobile app like IBS paint

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Nancy OShea
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October 11, 2025

Photoshop is for working with pixel based images.  Illustrator produces math-based vector graphics.

Two different things with vastly different results.

 

It's not impossible to convert pixels to vectors. But it rarely works well with anything other than flat opaque artwork like gouache or acrylics with well-defined lines & sharp edges.  Painterly effects of watercolor washes & glazes would be nearly impossible to convert to vector. Also, depending on the complexity of your designs, Auto Trace may not be sufficient. You'll likely have to manually trace image paths, which can be very tedious & time-consuming.   EPS is a zombie file type. Most customers want editable .ai graphics or .svg for the web. 

 

For best results, use hot press, smooth finish paper for your artwork. Although I personally prefer to paint on cold press, rough textures don't reproduce well when scanned to digital output.

 

Use a high quality image scanner. Clean up as much as possible in Photoshop, removing artifacts, signatures and borders. Then export to high quality sRGB JPG.  See the Contributor User Guide for more details.   

Hope that helps.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
Jill_C
Community Expert
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October 11, 2025

Everything you need to,know about submitting assets to Adobe Stock is included in the help,pages:

https://helpx.adobe.com/support/stock-contributor.html

Jill C., Forum Volunteer
RALPH_L
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Community Expert
October 10, 2025

Yes, but you may have to include a property release stating that you are the owner and creator of the original design.

Zia5EC9Author
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October 11, 2025

I am not a photofrapher. I am an artist I am talking about hand drawn drawing on raster soteware like adobe photoshop or procreate. what is the process to submit these watercolor hand drawn illustration as an EPS on adobe stock. People are upload but I am sure what is the exact process

Nancy OShea
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October 11, 2025
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I am not a photographer. 

By @Zia5EC9

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That's not a remark to you. That's @RALPH_L's forum signature. He's a nature photographer.  😉

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
PaintedKitty
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Community Expert
October 10, 2025

Please don't use image trace. You will have too many anchor points and messed up lines. it may look good to you but if you have to do any kind of edits, it will drive you crazy trying to find the correct anchor point and or broken line. You're better off tracing it manually in the program. It takes longer but its worth it in the end.