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Adobe to discontinue Stock Photo service
Macworld is reporting today that Adobe will stop selling stock images and illustrations via its Bridge interface as of April 1, 2008.
I had used Adobe Stock Photo off and on since purchasing my CS3 upgrade, and found it a bit slow. As in "slllllloooooooooowwwwww". Especially when you did a search for something returning more than about a dozen images. The server up at Adobe seemed to be going out and taking the photo, developing the film, cropping it, getting it licensed, and uploadingit to my computer each time I clicked the "search" button. I won't be particularly sorry to see it go.
The service relied on a host of other providers, such as Getty Images, or GettyOne, or whatever they have branded themselves as this year. If I bought a ton more stock each year, I might have found the trade-off of speed vs. an all-in-one-place solution acceptable, but for my needs, not so much. While my clients use a bit of stock photography, they also use a bit of assignment photography, especially location work, which I am happy to provide. And for those with tight budgets, the lure of shutterstock.com and istockphoto.com (even if they have relatively crappy images) is hard to resist.Labels: adobe, photography
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