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Adobe Stock file names

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
January 20, 2020
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Hi there.

I work in a team of designers and we are having issues with the length of some of the file names of stock images. We work under extreme pressure at times, chasing tight dealines so changing file names is not a top priority. Some of the file names are really unnecssarily long and this causes issues when we package our InDesign files.

Is there any chance Adobe could limit the length of file names on Adobe Stock? File names that are more than a few words seems totally unnecessary.

Is it just us, or is this a wider issue for other subscribers?

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RALPH_L

Community Expert

After checking through the webpage source code, I see that this URL is the tag "acquireLicensePage" link. After examining my own photos, I realized that the filename used in this link is my photo title. Thank you Adobe! This makes my title keywords searchable in internet search engines.

If you need shorter filenames simply give shorter titles.

Abambo

Community Expert

This is an old thread and in the wrong forum, but the “download filename” of the given example is shorter and simply the image id:

What the op is criticizing is not the download filename, but the assets title, which should stay as it is as this will help search engines to index the file correctly.

I'm moving this to the stock forum.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

WendellaBee

Adobe Employee

Hi donovanj79,

Do you have an example of a file name that is too long? The file name of a licensed jpeg is AdobeStock_nnnnnnnn.jpg and for a preview AdobeStock_nnnnnnnnn_Preview.jpeg where the series of n's represent the asset ID.

EBQ

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donovanj79Author

Participant

Hi there,

For example:

https://stock.adobe.com/uk/images/the-new-page-of-our-story-delightful-parents-are-hugging-their-teenage-daughter-who-is-holding-a-key-to-their-new-apartment/294548436?prev_url=detail

The file name here is: The new page of our story. Delightful parents are hugging their teenage daughter who is holding a key to their new apartment.

Is it really necessary to have such a long file name? Could you not have a download name that is simpler? So when the file is licensed and saved to CC Libraries the file name is shortened. Or Adobe gives us the option of saving it as the stock image reference number instead like it is saved when one downloads it to a local file storage location? i.e. this file would be named AdobeStock_294548436 in my CC Library instead of The new page of our story. Delightful parents are hugging their teenage daughter who is holding a key to their new apartment.

The main issue we have is that if a file name is too long, there are issue's packaging an InDesign document, i.e. it fails and I have to shorten the file name.

Many thanks,

Donovan

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Karen Sheets

Participant

Hi Donovan,

All this means is that there is something different between the way you are saving the asset and the way I am saving the asset. It sounds like there is a gap that our engineering team is not aware of and I'd like to help you solve this.

Please send me a private message and I'd be happy to arrange a time for you to demonstrate what you are experiencing.

Hello,

I know this thread is old but I came across it because I have the same problem. I have been enjoying licensing images directly in my InDesign file. My workflow is usually:

1. Find images in Adobe Stock via my web browser, and save to a new CC Library I create for the project.

2. In my InDesign layout, pull in images from the CC Libraries panel, which places a watermarked preview image in the layout.

3. Once client has approved, I click on the image in InDesign, double-click on the shopping-cart icon on the top right, and license the image directly. This for some reason names the image with the image description, not the asset number. The image description can be multi-sentence and contain a lot of punctuation or special characters. These types of file names are always problematic in Packaging. It also makes the link show in the Links panel, Status column, with two little boxes, as approved to nothing, when the image has a clean name and is a clean link.

When I try to package the InDesign file, I get the error shown in the attached, where you can also see what the Link names look like.

If I purchase and download an image through my browser, I get the cleaner file name with just the asset number.

The reason I like my workflow is that I can pull from the Libraries and try out multiple images without having to download previews or license images from the browser. I may have 100+ images I am trying out for projects where the imagery approval process is complex and there are a lot of images.

So I would agree with the original poster that improving the way images are named when licensed in this way would be a huge times savings for users with this workflow. Packaging files for us is a necessary last step in delivery, and right now I need to open each licensed image from InDesign into Photoshop, for example, then rename, and then relink in InDesign, in order to package the file and all the assets.

Thank you,

Karen

jacquelingphoto2017

Community Expert

Hi Donovon,

Thank you for your feedback. Actually there is a limit to the number of characters to a file name. It is limited to 200 characters. Since search engines such as Google uses the file name for search, many photographer sees it as being a necessity to pack as much as they can in the title. This might be the reason for many of these long file names.

You could however send this concern directly to Adobe by reaching out using the "Contact us" on your account page.

Best wishes

JG

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