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Hermann Ootic
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September 6, 2023
Question

no option to license adobe stock images from layers

  • September 6, 2023
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In discussion of licensing stock images from Adobe Stock it states that from a right click on the image in the layers pane of Photoshopl there will be an option to license with or without unlocking image as background. When I have an unlicensed image in Photoshop and right click on the layers panel there is no option to license. What needs to bw done to accomplish this?

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jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 6, 2023

@Hermann Ootic 

 

Instead of the Layers panel open the Libraries panel, then right-click the image and choose License Image.

 

Details here:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/help/find-stock-assets-in-app.html

 

 

 

Jane

 

EDIT: Conrad's reply came in 90 seconds before me while I was still typing.

 

Conrad_C
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 6, 2023

The License Image command seems to be available if the Adobe Stock image is a Smart Object layer, and that makes sense to me because then it would be easy for Photoshop to swap it out with the licensed version.

 

In your screen shot, the layer name is Layer 0 and is a normal pixel layer, not a Smart Object, so what probably happened is it lost its metadata including its status as an unlicensed Adobe Stock image.

 

If you brought this in from the Libraries panel, you can right-click it there and the License Image command will be there. Or if you add it to a Photoshop document as a placed linked Smart Object (for example, dragging it from the Libraries panel into an existing Photoshop document, or right-clicking it in the Libraries panel and choosing Place Linked), then the License Image command will be there when you right-click it.

 

But any method of opening/importing that brings it in as a flat pixel-only layer will not show the License Image command (for example, right-clicking it in the Libraries panel and choosing Place Layers will bring it in as just pixels).