Stock AdobeReviews of stock.adobe.com

First, let me start with I am a HUGE fan of Adobe, and their creative suite is next-level. I don't go a day without using an Adobe product during the course of business. That said, Adobe Stock is a mediocre service. (1) Their credit system in weak. And it is absolutely annoying that you can't use extra photo credits for stock video. Dumb. (2) Quitting is impossible. I get a number of credits per month and they carryover. As a result I have 100+ unused credits. If I cancel, I lose them all. So I'm stuck. With all of that, the images are high quality and I use them regularly. But, man, they could really turn this into a great product with a couple of tweaks.

That's the problem with most large stock companies - locked in subscription services, difficulty contacting, etc. A better solution is to buy content directly from artists on their websites. Also, that's a good way for supporting artists because the large stock agencies keep 60 - 85% of earnings to themselves.

On the plus side, decent selection of various visual assets all the way from video to line drawings. Also on the plus side, reasonable amount of okay free stuff and available instantly. On the down side, their pricing scheme. It's a total gotcha and honestly the monthly is steep unless you literally are using it every day. Whatever skinny, dweeby little bean counter that came up with it is probably the same dude who designed the seats in coach class on airlines and wrote the interest rate policies for low end credit cards.

It's a good tool. But my computer works so slowly when I run the programme!! So I'm quite frustrated with it.