- Adobe Stock is 10 years old
- The company is rolling new missions and bonus wages for contributors
- Creators finally get access to Adobe Stock content inside apps like Photoshop
Adobe Stock is about to hit its 10 -year anniversary – and to celebrate the milestone, it seems that the company has some big surprises in store for the platform’s contributors, creators and users.
The company is described in a blog post and has taken a retrospective look at how far the platform has come since its first launch and its plans for the future.
We had a lot of compliments to give in our recent Adobe Stock Review, and noticed how impressive easy it was to add media to the site and start making money.
Now it seems that Adobe is preparing for several ways for contributors to earn with the Stock Photo site and improve workflows for users of the site.
What’s new in Adobe Stock?
For contributors to Adobe Stock, there are two main features that caught my eye.
More ways to make money are the big one when the Adobe share becomes ten. The platform already supports individual licenses, bonus salary for Firefly – Missions and Missions – the latter of which will soon be expanded. It is an interesting idea with contributors who are able to earn more to provide specific types of content that Adobe requires.
Alongside this, the platform introduces the third Firefly bonus payment. Effectively, this means that the contributors who let the company train its Firefly AI on their media in the past year will find some extra cash in their portal from tomorrow.
Improved integration across Adobe Apps is the second notable update. This is something that the company typically distinguishes itself – you only have to look at how tools like Express and Firefly are now easily accessible inside Photoshop to see how the implementation is handled.
This means that anyone using Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects, XD, Dimension, Dreamweaver and Express will be able to view and licensing this content. Adobe reckons this will provide “unmatched content visibility and exposure.” The real surprise to me here is how long it has been taken to get this done.
For creators and users of Adobe Stock, the most important features are to look for the expanded integration, where Adobe is already looking at new ways to use stock content as part of existing workflows.
It also promises new content types, where Adobe says it “quickly expands our offer to include photos, illustrations, videos, vectors, generative AI content, sound, templates, 3D assets, GIFs.”
The company also suggests that this is just the beginning – even if I struggle to think of a medium that is not already included in this list.
