Hi, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to show you how to upload
your vectors to Adobe Stock.
Adobe Stock is Adobe's stock image site where you can download photos or vectors.
And this is going to assume that you've already started an account, you've already got that
all set up.
All right, let's get started.
All right, I'm here in Adobe Illustrator, and usually when I create designs for Adobe
Stock or other stock agencies, I first will make my artboard in Illustrator 600 by 600
pixels, and then I add my art on it.
So this art is not mine, it's from Vecteezy, and the way it works with those sites, you
can't actually like, you know, obviously try to resell their images, you need to create
your own.
So this is just an example.
But one thing I make sure to do is I'll check the document Color Mode.
And to do that, I'll go to File > Document Color Mode, and we should be in RGB color,
so I'm going to change that right now.
Okay, so I'm ready to save this.
I need to make sure that any effects on these little guys are expanded and there's no bitmaps
or anything like that in the file.
To check that I can go to Links, and see if there's anything at all in links, you should
not have anything in here.
For the effects, you'll know if you have like drop shadows or something like that.
You can't have any of that in your vector artwork.
And you can't have any watermarks or anything like that in the file and nothing off to the
side.
Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and save this as an EPS 10.
So I'll go to File > Save as, I'll change this to EPS down here at the bottom and Save.
And here's where I can choose Illustrator 10 EPS, and it'll give us this little warning.
It's just saying, if we have any live text in here, which you also should not have any
live text, you need to convert all that to outline, so before doing this.
But it's saying that sometimes it's going to do that for you, and it's going to disable
some of the editing features.
That's not anything you need to worry about though, so we'll say OK, and this is okay
also.
Now for Adobe Stock, they also need a JPEG.
So I'm going to go ahead and save as a JPEG also.
So we'll go to File > Export, and Export As, and then down here, I'll choose JPEG.
I'll Use Artboards and Export.
And then for the resolution, I usually choose a really high resolution like 750.
I'll put my quality at maximum.
That's probably a little overkill, but it's always worked fine for me.
So we'll say OK.
So I'm out here in my finder, and I've got this EPS and this JPEG.
Now they have to have exactly the same name.
So I'm going to click on this one and hit Enter or Return and copy it.
And then do the same up here and paste it.
You can't do that on PC, so you'll just have to rename it whatever way is best, just so
they match.
The next step is to select both and compress them into a zip file.
So come up here to File and Compress 2 Items.
And that'll give me this Archive.zip.
This is the file I'll upload to Adobe Stock.
Now I'm going to come out here and go to the Adobe Stock website and log in.
And now I'm going to click on Sell right up here at the top.
And now I can go to Upload.
And this is where I'll drop my archive file.
All right, and now we can fill out our info.
The file type is vector, and then the category is going to be animals for this one.
You can look through all the categories and see what best applies.
I'm writing my title and keywords in English.
And this is not illustrative editorial.
You can learn more about what kind of images are right for that category.
But usually you're not going to be uploading editorial content, unless you're like a celebrity
photographer, or you're taking pictures of recognizable buildings and stuff like that.
So under here, I'm going to put No, this is not recognizable.
Usually your keywords will populate 25 keywords based on Adobe's artificial intelligence.
They look at your image and try to guess what keywords would be good for this, which is
really helpful.
For the title, I'm just going to type 'Owls with Cute Faces and Big Eyes.'
Down here are the keywords they suggest for us, so I'm going to see all 20.
And with this site, it's best to list the most important ones at the beginning.
So 'owl' is going to move up here, maybe 'bird' is pretty important.
It's just a good idea to make sure your top 10 are the most relevant.
After that, I don't think it really matters.
And you'll want to make sure that all of your keywords apply to the image.
So right here, I've got 'dog' and I don't want that in there, 'cat' does not apply.
'Baby' kind of does because it kind of looks like baby owls.
So it's okay to go that route but just make sure they all apply.
You can also add your own keywords down here.
Now once you're done with all of the information, you would go ahead and choose Submit One File
and then just Submit again.
Now I'm not going to actually submit, but this is how you would do it.
And that's the last step, then you usually wait about a week, or maybe a little less
time for approval and then your image will go on the site.
And when it sells you'll get anywhere from about 25 cents to even up to $100 if it's
bought for commercial use.
All right, if you like this video, I'm also out on TikTok now, and I'm doing little short
tutorials on Illustrator and Photoshop over there.
So I left a link in my description below if you want to check it out.
Thank you!!!