How do I use Adobe Stock (or similar) to create a preview presentation?
July 31, 2018 3:15 PM Subscribe
This sounds stupid but I used to have a huge creative department that'd give us beautiful options for presentations. I'm familiar with InDesign and enough to be dangerous, but it seems I can't find a stock image site that will provide full images (with or without the "stock image" stamp) so I can at least preview before I buy an $80 image for one slide in a 100+ page deck. Am I missing something or do big agencies just purchase the images and don't care about price? To be clear, I just need to make it look good internally and then purchase the images after they get approved. It is hard for me to figure out if a stock image is going to look good if I get a thumbnail from Adobe Stock.
Shutterstock is about $10/image and their thumbnails are sufficiently large. Been working with them for the past few years, no complaints.
posted by porn in the woods at 3:30 PM on July 31, 2018
posted by porn in the woods at 3:30 PM on July 31, 2018
Yes, companies that sell stock images have monthly subscription plan that either have unlimited or limited downloads.
Without subscription, you should still be able to grab/download FPOs (For position only) images with company watermark over it.
Adobe Stock, iStock, Shutterstock are examples of companies that provide stock photos and offer subscription plans or per-image price. There are a whole lot others you can find with a simple google search.
posted by gloturtle at 3:31 PM on July 31, 2018
Without subscription, you should still be able to grab/download FPOs (For position only) images with company watermark over it.
Adobe Stock, iStock, Shutterstock are examples of companies that provide stock photos and offer subscription plans or per-image price. There are a whole lot others you can find with a simple google search.
posted by gloturtle at 3:31 PM on July 31, 2018
You want an Envato Elements subscription! $29 a month, access a huge library of photos, icons, presentation templates, etc. Any time I find an image going for $80 somewhere else, I go to Elements to see if it's there and boom, I download it, no additional charge needed.
posted by Hermione Granger at 3:32 PM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Hermione Granger at 3:32 PM on July 31, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: Adobe Stock does FPO that's even PPT/Keynote size? I don't care about the watermark it is just that the preview seems so small that it isn't usable. Again, end price is not an issue, I just want to play with it until I figure out which background image works.
posted by geoff. at 3:35 PM on July 31, 2018
posted by geoff. at 3:35 PM on July 31, 2018
The preview is a low resolution download until you decide to purchase the image. You should be able to enlarge the image once you place it in InDesign. It will be even more low resolution once you enlarge it.
When you do decide to purchase the image, make sure you select the largest resolution file.
posted by gloturtle at 3:39 PM on July 31, 2018
When you do decide to purchase the image, make sure you select the largest resolution file.
posted by gloturtle at 3:39 PM on July 31, 2018
Try Pixabay, which has free high-resolution pictures for commercial use.
https://pixabay.com/
posted by nkknkk at 3:49 PM on July 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
https://pixabay.com/
posted by nkknkk at 3:49 PM on July 31, 2018 [2 favorites]
Similarly, Unsplash. I know you said end price is not an issue but free is always better in my books.
I’m not at my computer right now but I can check tomorrow what the preview size ends up being in Adobe Stock. I’ve never used it but surely there’s a decent size in there...
posted by sailoreagle at 5:31 PM on July 31, 2018
I’m not at my computer right now but I can check tomorrow what the preview size ends up being in Adobe Stock. I’ve never used it but surely there’s a decent size in there...
posted by sailoreagle at 5:31 PM on July 31, 2018
In istockphoto, if you click on the central arrow icon in the preview image it pops up a larger image you can use for comping. The image will have watermarks but it's big enough to work with.
Shutterstock you can just click and get the bigger image.
posted by zadcat at 7:05 PM on July 31, 2018
Shutterstock you can just click and get the bigger image.
posted by zadcat at 7:05 PM on July 31, 2018
Having gotten to my computer, I've test-downloaded a bunch of previews off Adobe Stock and they're all 1000px on the long side. This is not super large, but it's also by no means small - you should be able to drop that on a presentation to see if it looks right, even stretching it on a background. Are you getting something smaller?
posted by sailoreagle at 4:21 AM on August 1, 2018
posted by sailoreagle at 4:21 AM on August 1, 2018
Google image search is totally your friend here. You can use the tools to find the size and usage rights you need or to find out where to get the image you want.
If you want to pay, Dreamstime, Shutterstock and Getty Creative are all great sources. I think you just create an account, chuck in your payment details and then grab a comp to check it works for you. Once you're sure it's the right image does, it's usually click and download.
There are free stock sites that are getting better all the time: Pixabay, Pexels and Unsplash are all pretty decent, if a bit soft-focus, though none of them has amazing search metadata. Try Vecteezy and the Noun Project if you need vector icons.
Wikicommons is a great source of free imagery -- search using that rather than wikipedia for a wider selection -- and I search a lot on Flickr for images that are Creative Commons licensed. You can also search on Google Images and use the tools to find images that are large enough Creative Commons. Remember to credit.
Beyond that, a lot of companies, particularly technology companies, have free press kits, though read the blurb to check you have permission to use the images in the context you need.
Just for info, for anyone who likes looking at interesting things, there are more sources of free imagery coming online all the time, though most have somewhat rubbish metadata and the images are more likely to be historical than contemporary.
The US government and large institutions are COMPLETELY EXCELLENT at putting free imagery online. (So good that I expect the Trump administration to stop it any time now, as they do most good things) Library of Congress, NIH and Nasa are all great though you can lose hours in there. The Wellcome Institute is good for medical stuff, the British Library has heaps of free book images and the New York Public Library image collection is fabulous. Europeana is one I haven't had much time to look at but what I have seen is beautiful.
posted by finisterre at 2:05 PM on August 1, 2018
If you want to pay, Dreamstime, Shutterstock and Getty Creative are all great sources. I think you just create an account, chuck in your payment details and then grab a comp to check it works for you. Once you're sure it's the right image does, it's usually click and download.
There are free stock sites that are getting better all the time: Pixabay, Pexels and Unsplash are all pretty decent, if a bit soft-focus, though none of them has amazing search metadata. Try Vecteezy and the Noun Project if you need vector icons.
Wikicommons is a great source of free imagery -- search using that rather than wikipedia for a wider selection -- and I search a lot on Flickr for images that are Creative Commons licensed. You can also search on Google Images and use the tools to find images that are large enough Creative Commons. Remember to credit.
Beyond that, a lot of companies, particularly technology companies, have free press kits, though read the blurb to check you have permission to use the images in the context you need.
Just for info, for anyone who likes looking at interesting things, there are more sources of free imagery coming online all the time, though most have somewhat rubbish metadata and the images are more likely to be historical than contemporary.
The US government and large institutions are COMPLETELY EXCELLENT at putting free imagery online. (So good that I expect the Trump administration to stop it any time now, as they do most good things) Library of Congress, NIH and Nasa are all great though you can lose hours in there. The Wellcome Institute is good for medical stuff, the British Library has heaps of free book images and the New York Public Library image collection is fabulous. Europeana is one I haven't had much time to look at but what I have seen is beautiful.
posted by finisterre at 2:05 PM on August 1, 2018
My company has unlimited hi-res "comp" downloads from ShutterStock and Adobe. We only pay for what we use. I imagine agencies have something similar. That's what you want.
posted by (Over) Thinking at 6:30 PM on August 1, 2018
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