Designing with Adobe Stock

Conrad Chavez

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A new dividend from Creative Cloud

This article appeared in Issue 82 of InDesign Magazine.

Adobe recently created the new Adobe Stock service by combining their recent acquisition of the Fotolia stock agency with Adobe Creative Cloud. Adobe took the time to rethink how a stock image service could work within a cloud-driven production workflow involving Adobe applications, and this gives Adobe Stock certain unique advantages.

Using any service’s stock photos in Adobe InDesign is not much of a challenge; just download the images and place them. How could it be any better? For Adobe, the answer was in using its Creative Cloud Libraries (or CC Libraries) to simplify how you try, buy, store, and import stock images. You can buy Adobe Stock images individually or as part of a subscription plan; as I write this, Creative Cloud subscribers get a discount on the 10-images-a-month plan.

To see this integration in action, we’ll use a sample InDesign document that’s a fictitious electronic newsletter (Figure 1), like the kind that a health care provider would send to its members.

Figure 1: This newsletter story needs a graphic to go in the placeholder frame at the bottom of the page.

The layout is coming together, but it needs an image for the first page of an article on good nutrition. Let’s see what Adobe Stock can do.

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