things that should improve adobe stock

1.  No need for this.  Adobe Portfolio already comes free with your Stock Contributor account.  It's highly customizable and connects seamlessly with your Stock Collections. And visitors can purchase Stock assets from links in your Portfolio. 

https://help.myportfolio.com/hc/articles/360036798993-Sharing-Adobe-Stock-Collections-on-Adobe-Portfolio

2. Customers search for content by keywords & phrases. They don't seek out specific Contributors unless they're doing something sketchy to artificially boost the seller's sales. Don't hold out any false hopes for that to change. 

3. Nobody can clear cookies & cached data from your browsers except YOU. Read the maker's documentation for details.  Cookies & Data Cache are usually under TOOLS ⇒ Settings ⇒ Privacy & Security. 

4. Keywords are fully customizable. Suggestions are there to help you get started. You're under no obligation to use them. Act according to your content, not the automated suggestions. 

5. Adobe doesn't think there's a problem with the Stock Review process. And you'll never convince them of it here. They don't interact with this user-to-user community. You know what to do.

https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/contact

Any other complaints? Take them directly to Adobe Stock. As product users, we are powerless to change how Adobe runs their business. Good luck.

The main page should contain a short description of 2-3 sentences. Next there should be a page with a more precise description. As far as I understand, they are removing this so that people do not contact us directly. However, I am sure they will come up with a complete portfolio and open contact information.

Collections. We only display 2 collections, I have 20 of them. Of course, they would clutter the main page. Therefore, collections must be displayed on a separate “Collections” tab.

Improved portfolio search - yes, yes, and yes again. I have a search bar, but it almost never works.

Keywords - I didn’t know that there could be much more of them, it seemed to me that there were so many. However, stock portfolios are becoming more and more complex and original with the advent of AI, I can see this in my portfolio. And standard words will clearly not be enough. Yes, I am for an increase of at least 50-100%.

Ratings. Some kind of ratings or just articles in a magazine that would help the buyer navigate this huge world of the portfolios. For example, “20 fashion photographers” or “20 ECO portfolios”, or “20 amazing pixel art artists”.

In principle, I would like to see more articles, you can make a good magazine on different topics, literally 7-10 materials per month will be enough to have comments, discussions and community.

Feedback - I heard that there is a problem with this. But I haven’t encountered it myself and I don’t know what’s wrong. Maybe they don’t answer only when they know for sure that you are a scammer? Maybe not. I don't have accurate information. When someone steals $100 from you, he is no longer your client, but a lawbreaker.

Cleaning of 6-fingered people 🙂 This has already happened! Thanks God. 

I really like Adobe’s articles about trends and what’s missing in a portfolio.

I really like to know how many views have my photos, not just sales.

This page is awesome https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/ru/insights/best/contributors. 

But right now there is an AI portfolio with huge errors that can be seen right 1 km away.

Absolutely agree and I can add 10 more things. But it feels like it goes how it goes. Thanks God, Adobe in general is super company. Anyway, I believe in 1-2 years we will see renovation of procces. 

By the way, everything is here also visible for Adobe Company, so doesnt matter that they not answer here, they read. 

1. This is a user-to-user community; not a direct pipeline to Adobe.

2. As non-employee Contributors, we have no say in how Adobe runs their business or their websites. That's not our wheelhouse.

3. If you get hired by Adobe, maybe they'll allow you to make recommendations to upper-level decision-makers.

Good luck.

Before contesting the opinions, read them first and accept them.

By @Worker404

No, I do not have to accept them. Why should I? You could expect that people read what you have to say before contesting, but they surely do not accept them.

If you agree that you want amendments to these points as well, please add a vote for this post, or just copy it and try to suggest some of these ideas to the moderators if you are able to reach them, perhaps at least one point will be resolved.

By @Worker404

Upvoting your post does not make you earn a cent. Adobe does, for most of the posts, not read this forum. Sorry for that, but it is wasted effort. Nobody can reach out to the moderators except some employees of Adobe stock.

First, more customization for the portfolio: The Portfolio in Adobe needs more customization, and you must add at least two lines to describe yourself and the work that you do, or make it possible to display a way to communicate with you. The problem with this step is that Adobe will not want you to communicate with someone outside the site because it will lose the percentage of profit, so we move to the second point.

By @Worker404

As you correctly pointed out, Adobe does not want that, so it is pointless. As for "describing your work": buyers are not searching by profile, but they are searching the whole database. Your individual profile is of no use to them. You can connect a collection of your profile with Portfolio, and you can share your public profile with social media as you wish. I don't do that. I do not feel a need to do that. And I do not need to feel the need for anyone in the world to know more about my life. When I'm taking pictures for a customer, I get paid by them. That's all. I can promote my work independently of Adobe stock. That's much more profitable for me.

Secondly, it would be good to add the possibility of searching for images owned by a specific contrbutor, or searching for the contrbutor himself. Some people may prefer to buy specific businesses from a specific person, as in reality some buyers are more comfortable with merchants than other merchants. If the matter had been a failure, it would not have been implemented at sutterstock. This may increase the chance of people purchasing the content you produce. they can also add a button to follow specific contrbutors, so you get notifications when new assets come, It is not difficult.

By @Worker404

Again: customers do not search for your assets, they search for assets. When they find an asset that pleases them, there are tools to look for similar assets. That's much more profitable for you as a contributor and for Adobe. Using Shutterstock as an example of good sales is a joke. I do much more money and I have much more sales here on Adobe stock than I have on Shutterstock. So both, the amount and the numbers are more favourable for Adobe. And that even without all these whistles and bells. But it may be, that stock has the big advantage of being an integrated product to Creative Cloud. I agree, that advantage is unfair against the competition.

Third, cookie issues: Some issues related to cookies must be resolved  which leads to your portfolio not appearing to you, but it appears to others normally.
The device on which you are logged in does not display your portfolio, but on other devices on which you are not logged in, it appears normally.

By @Worker404

That is more a region issue. In what region are you located? When I check my portfolio, it is the same as when other people look at my portfolio.

Fourth, the keyword tool: There is no doubt that the keywords provided by Adobe Stock are small when compared to those provided by shutterstock. You can notice the difference in the number of keywords and suggestions. The Adobe Stock team must work a little to improve the suggested keywords, and it would also be better Adding a tool that brings you images similar to your images and the keywords they contain, and you can choose the keywords that you like from them. The matter is applied in shutterstock and it is really successful. Man, imagine how much time you will save writing keywords and thinking about them.

By @Worker404

Agree, the keyword tool could do a better job.

Fifth: A comprehensive solution to the strange problems and complaints that appear regarding accepting images full of errors and rejecting good ones. We do not know the nature of the Adobe team’s view of the work and whether they examine all the images or judge all of them by some, but there is no doubt that the issue occurred to you or You are tired of the many posts complaining about the topic.

By @Worker404

No, the issue did not occur to me. But the issue surfaced when Adobe started accepting generative AI assets, and the moderators were not prepared for this. Most of the generative AI contributors throw anything against the wall, and see what sticks. It is rare that good assets get refused. I have seen here on the fora, during my years of presence may be three or four of such assets, where I simply could not explain, why the asset got refused. None of those was mine. My refusals are always for cause, even if I sometimes don't agree. I have some refusals for noise where I consider the noise level to be correct. But OK, I reduced the noise a little bit more and they passed. No harm done.

Generative AI assets that pass are very regularly scrap. I won't deny that. And I won't deny that contributors get confused with inconsistent refusals.

First, more customization for the portfolio: The Portfolio in Adobe needs more customization, and you must add at least two lines to describe yourself and the work that you do, or make it possible to display a way to communicate with you. The problem with this step is that Adobe will not want you to communicate with someone outside the site because it will lose the percentage of profit, so we move to the second point.

 

 

By @Worker404

The whole paragraph is irrelevant, since there is Behance. Discover the network for yourself. There is an option to link your Adobe Stock acc there, and vice versa - you are able to link your Behance profile on Adobe Stock. And there are direct messages on Behance.