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    Adobe Stock

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AAdobe Stock consists of curated asset collections that allow users to explore diverse collections of high-resolution, royalty-free, stock assets for use in digital projects.

    $29

    per month

    Pixabay

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/APixabay headquartered in Germany offers a digital content platform, which they present as a community for sharing copyright-free images and videos. All contents are released under Creative Commons.N/A
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    Adobe StockPixabay
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    Adobe StockPixabay
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    Adobe
    Chose Adobe Stock
    I think across the board, Adobe Stock is in line with all of these. It does seem to have better (and more) options than tools like Pixabay, but there are instances where we find something niche and specific on Pixabay that we did not find on Adobe Stock. I think Getty and Canva …
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    Chose Adobe Stock
    IStock doesn’t have the breadth of assets that Adobe has, and doesn’t have an accessible price point for individuals to pay a monthly subscription rate for its photo and other assets.Unsplash and Pexels have decent options for stock photography and texture backgrounds, but can …
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    Chose Adobe Stock
    Adobe Stock has a better selection than most. It also has a free trial to help you decide if the price is worth it. The other companies are free but you may not find the right image or it will take longer to find a unique picture for your needs. Adobe Stock adds new photos …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    In comparison to other options, Adobe Stock is far more user-friendly. Adobe Stock has helped me find quality photos. One-stop licensing's convenience and variety were important. Instead of buying photos per image, we usually find something similar at Adobe and license it under …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    Adobe Stock was selected by our organisation because it's integrated with Creative Cloud. Adobe Stock offers a more flexible on-demand option and a much longer free trial than other products. Adobe Stock is a good alternative as the subscription has a wide range of photos to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    As I already mentioned Adobe Stock is the perfect place to search for great stock photos. The following is stacked up against them. More than 100 million images Straightforward Regular updates accessible directly within the Creative Cloud platform smart search.
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    I think one of the main advantages of Adobe Stock over the other programs is that Adobe has a much larger and better quality catalog that adapts in a better way to the needs of my projects, considerably improving the quality and the experience they provide to the user. In …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    Adobe Stock is very unique and versatile compared to other vendors that we have evaluated because it provides access to the largest library of high-resolution, royalty-free stock assets. The premium stock images, video footage, templates, music, and audio files are incredible …
    Incentivized
    Chose Adobe Stock
    Adobe Stock offers a more robust set of stock images. They also have a very useful search feature to help us quickly locate the image we want to use in our content. The quality of the images also appears to be better - a larger database, and higher-quality images to pick from.
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    Chose Adobe Stock
    The sheer choice is fantastic, and the search function is exceptional. I also like how many illustrations there are, which is an added bonus (ie icon packs). It’s just genuinely been a pleasure using the product and has made finding images so much easier and faster.
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    Chose Adobe Stock
    Some of my favorite pictures that I have gotten have been kid pictures on Adobe Stock compared to other sites. The photographers that sell their photos pick the most photogenic kids. Often times I can find ones that look like they were taken right in our office. Adobe Stock is …
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    Pixabay
    Chose Pixabay
    We also looked at Adobe Stock and Freepik. Adobe Stock has a better breadth of images available on their site, but they can be expensive depending on your needs. Sometimes, if Pixabay doesn't have an image that matches what I need I may use Adobe Stock or Freepik. Freepik is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay is way ahead of Adobe Stock, as it provides better Image & graphics quality, a very improved design tool. Pixabay provides a variety of search results when compared to Adobe Stock or other tools or software. Pixabay provides really great online support. Pixabay …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pexels is free and fully licensed for commercial use, as is Unsplash to a certain extent. I generally open all 3 to search for free stock images for budget-sensitive clients; that being said, I always find myself searching Pixabay first. They have the best user interface of …
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    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay gets around the language barrier by being available in more than 20 different languages. The website doesn't have any ads. They do have "sponsored images" from Shutterstock, but I really like that there are no other ads. When I download an image, I can choose from a …
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    Chose Pixabay
    Overall, I really like Pixabay as the quality of images has never let me down. On top of that, I really love the community/creators as they're very supportive. I would say that you will have not many problems or complaints when you use Pixabay and will definitely help in your …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay is a very user-friendly site, and feels less 'business' orientated and approachable. The graphic designers that used it got to grips with it very quickly and found a decent range of stuff. However, there were occasions when we needed to go somewhere else to find the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay is adequate but needs to up its image game in order to compete with other free stock sites, which have more extensive and better quality imagery available. I personally moved from using Pixabay to other free image sites due to the quality and range of images not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay is my starting point for any image search as it provides cross-over/reference to other sites but isn't so overwhelming with images. I feel with the other sites I could get lost in the endless pages of stock imagery, especially when they seem so similar.
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    While Pixabay doesn’t offer the same variety that other paid stock image sites, they offer a good enough variety for my needs. And you really can’t go wrong with free. If you’re starting out in the blogging world or don’t have enough money, or simply don’t want to spend the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Pixabay
    Pixabay is free, easy to search and find, user friendly, offers a great variety of stock images.
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    Adobe StockPixabay
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (68 ratings)
    7.6
    (39 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
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