How do I download my free stock?

[Deaf_Guy]

I might be misunderstanding this, but I pay $52.00 a month for CS. I thought you could download the free stock assets [photos; footage; etc.] for free as part of my $52 plan.

I went to the free stock section and downloaded a short 8 second clip. It went to my library. I then opened up the library and there it was. I then wanted to download it to my PC so I could then import it into Premiere. There was no download button, so I right-clicked on it to download it. It did but it's low res and watermarked.

So does this "free" stock come with my $52 plan? If so, can you tell me how to download the high-res version of the free stuff?

Thank you.

[WendellaBee]

With your Creative Cloud account you can sign into https://stock.adobe.com/free and license free assets.

[Deaf_Guy]

Yes, as I explained that's what I did. Note what I said though - I downloaded a piece of footage but how do I then download it to my computer? Why is it when I right-clicked on it to save it from My Library that it was watermarked?

[WendellaBee]

It doesn't sound like you've licensed the asset. If you click in the lower right corner of the asset thumbnail while viewing on the Adobe Stock website you'll see a licensed button. You can also click on the middle of the thumbnail and see additional details for the asset and license from that view too.

[Deaf_Guy]

OK thanks. I figured it out. I opened up Premiere then selected downloaded to app [Premiere]. I then went to Premiere and there it was but it was still watermarked. I noticed in the project list there was a grovery cart icon. So I clicked on that and then the high res downloaded. I dragged it to the timeline and it worked. Not sure why that grocery cart was there though because the clip did say it was a free one. Confusing but got it to work.

[Abambo]

The grocery cart means "Licence the asset". 

[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

Even though Adobe offers a number of Stock assets with no charge, they are still licensed. The license puts specific limits on your use of the image. For example there are limits on how many copies you can print, and rules that in some cases you must attribute; you also must not resell the image or provide it for anyone else to download. So you have to go through a licensing process to get access to the free stuff.

[Deaf_Guy]

OK thanks for explaining this. It's very helpful.

[Abambo]

Look here for more information on the licensing terms: https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-discussions/links-for-licensing-terms/td-p/11366788

[Matt249409361r9t]

This is a great example of how much we have allowed companies like Adobe to mislead loyal customers to make more money. Imagine if, or when, Tesla offers its cars for FREE. However, in order to drive your FREE car more than once a month, you'll need to purchase an additional license or credits. Adobe and Tesla apologists will respond by saying, "You're naive. It's more complicated. See, there's artistic licensing, use rights, or other IP royalties that we have no control over, etc." Fine then. Stop advertising and marketing the content as FREE. It's disingenuous.

[Jill_C]

I don't know how you could conclude that stock images are free to use in any manner you wish. Scroll down on this page and you'll see  "how free asset licensing works". Whether you obtain a paid license or a free license, you are still bound by license terms. Adobe is not sneaky or disingenuous about this. Free means free in that you don't pay for the license, and there are no additional fees to use that license,but you're still agreeing to a license. Thus, your Tesla analogy isn't germane.
 https://stock.adobe.com/free?ef_id=CjwKCAiAvoqsBhB9EiwA9XTWGXOXQG0S3z14WIUsgAMG0CGXNwOVJAtQ3LIApu3nu...

[Abambo]

This is a great example of how much we have allowed companies like Adobe to mislead loyal customers to make more money. Imagine if, or when, Tesla offers its cars for FREE. However, in order to drive your FREE car more than once a month, you'll need to purchase an additional license or credits. Adobe and Tesla apologists will respond by saying, "You're naive. It's more complicated. See, there's artistic licensing, use rights, or other IP royalties that we have no control over, etc." Fine then. Stop advertising and marketing the content as FREE. It's disingenuous.

By @Matt249409361r9t

The free assets come with the same commercial standard licence as the for pay assets. You even do not need a plan of any kind. Tesla does not offer it's cars for free.

[Deaf_Guy]

I honestly don't understand your post. The stock library has both free and paid assets. I made a number of really nice video clips using the free stuff and I wouldn't have ever been able to do so with out the library.

Here is one example of something I made with the free stock stuff. The footage was all on the library and gives the finished product a 1000% jump in professionalism

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So I really don't understand what you're complaining about. As someone else said, Teslas are not free anyway; neither is Creative Cloud but as far as I know, I don't see anything that Tesla does offer for free as part of paying $100,000 for their cars.