Content Guidelines: Vectors

Vectors are a flexible and powerful part of the Adobe Stock collection. Customers rely on them for everything from logos and branding to digital illustrations, product packaging, motion graphics, and more. Whether it’s scaling an illustration for a billboard or tweaking the color of icons, vectors provide customers with unmatched adaptability.

As a Contributor, submitting high-quality vectors can result in increased income opportunities and ensures your work can be used for a variety of creative and commercial purposes. When vectors are created and submitted correctly, your vectors become a solution for customers around the world. 

Getting Started: What to Submit

We accept vectors in three formats:

• AI (Adobe Illustrator files)

• EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)

• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

• We do not accept vector files saved in ZIP folders or uploaded as JPEGs.

Transparent Vectors

When customers download a vector, they automatically receive:

1. A JPEG preview image 

1. The original EPS, AI or SVG vector

If your vector has a transparent or flat color background, Adobe will automatically generate a PNG version with transparency for customers to download. There is no need to upload a separate transparent version of your vector.   

This auto-generated PNG makes it easier for customers to use your content in web design, overlays, or drag-and-drop workflows, helping your vectors reach projects that benefit from quick implementation without additional editing required. 

Creating Vectors: Technical and Design Requirements

The following are the technical and design requirements you need to adhere to in order to successfully contribute to Adobe Stock, starting with clean, editable, and optimized vectors.

Technical and Design Requirements

• Maximum file size: 45MB (megabytes)

• Artboard offset: (0,0) upper-left corner 

• Artboard size: 15MP and 65MP (megapixels) for optimal usage

• Document color mode: RGB 

And here are some more guidelines for successful submissions: 

Learn more about technical best practices for creating great vectors, and see how to use Adobe Illustrator paths, strokes, and anchor points to optimize your vector files.

Size your vectors just right.

While vectors are scalable, we recommend creating them in useable sizes so customers can edit them as is. Customers will be able to download vector files as PNGs and JPEGs, and small vector files will download as low-resolution images if not at scale. 

Get more detailed size recommendations from Adobe Stock. 

Use effective titles and keywords.

If your file doesn't have a title or any embedded keywords, Adobe Stock will automatically suggest a title and up to 25 keywords to save you time. Read through them and edit, reorder, or remove keywords as needed, and then arrange them in order of importance as the first 10 keywords listed are prioritized in search results. 

If you’ve already added titles and keywords to your JPEG preview images in Adobe Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Adobe Bridge, or another image-editing app, Adobe Stock will preserve them. You can always edit that metadata before submitting your content.

Don’t use trademarked names (e.g., Porsche, iPad, or Ferrari), camera specifications (e.g., Nikon or 12MP), types of content (e.g., vector or illustration), names of artists, real known people, fictional characters, or reference to creative works that are still in copyright in your titles or keywords. Please see HERE for additional information.

Learn more about titles and keywords or see the Illustration section of the artist field guide for examples and more information. 

Know the legal basics.

Adobe Stock content needs to comply with all laws around copyright, trademarks, privacy rights, property rights, and more. Review the Legal guidelines section of this user guide to make sure you understand key legal terms and know when you need to include a model release and/or property release with your submission. 

A couple key things to know:

• If you create vector art based on a photograph or a work of art, you need to provide a property release — even if the photo or artwork is your own work. 
  
• We can’t accept vectors that contain logos, trademarks, company names, or brand names. — although you may be able to submit work in which these things have been digitally removed. Illustrations with brands or products may be considered for illustrative editorial content.

Be careful not to spam. 

Select only your best vectors and ensure that each submission offers something different. Don’t submit multiple images with minimal changes. Submitting multiple copies of similar or identical content can be perceived as spam by our moderation team, and submitting multiple versions of created with the same prompt will be treated as spam. Using long, non-descriptive, repetitive, or irrelevant titles and keywords can be perceived as spam as well. Spamming is strictly prohibited and may prompt us to block your account or close it permanently. Learn more

Adobe Artists:

Nadezhda | 310890179, Cute Designs | 338373670, Katsyarina | 419405286, macrovector | 384104080