Dear Adobe Devs,
I've never uploaded photos to the stock site but need to use it often for developing educational materials. Trying to search this site has brought me near tears of frustration many times. Here's a list of things that would make a user's life better and we would be more inclined to use this site instead of competitors.
- Add search defaults. My company doesn't allow generative AI, I can't use Premium with our licensing agreement, and can't use Editorial-only images. Please be mindful of your customers' time and allow default search options.
- Allow short phrases or multiple words for a description. Boolean searches have not worked well and searches can be painful when I get 200 pages of unrelated images to sift through.
- Add locations for the images, both name and location coordinates. If I'm searching for Manchester, New Hampshire, it's confusing and can lead to inaccuracies if the search includes Manchester, England. Or if there's no location at all can be frustrating as well.
- Is there training related to choosing the keywords for those uploading images? If not, please consider doing a training module on image tags. Terms like "beautiful" and "bird" are not useful, but "plumage" and "peacock" are. And using the genus and species of an animal, if known, is ideal.
- Disclosing if the image is a composite or what filters have been used is also helpful. I can't knowingly use composite images.
- Can we see what the tags are for the images? I've had to exclude images because I couldn't verify information such as location for the image and then by looking at the "similar keywords section" it shows completely unrelated tags and I've lost confidence in the accuracy of the initial search.
Thanks for your consideration.
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