From the course: Learning to Use Stock Photos and Assets

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Using lightboxes

Using lightboxes

- [Instructor] Some stock sites, like iStock Photo and Adobe Stock, use personalized storage to hold assets for easy reference. Depending on the site you use, these will have various names, such as boards, libraries or lightboxes. Some sites also allow you to share your stored samples with others. This could be a handy way to review your assets, especially if the other person is not local. Saving images on a stock site is a fairly simple process. Let's take a look at how this is done in Adobe Stock. Adobe Stock requires you to log in with your Adobe ID and uses libraries to save your assets. Simply search for your image, find your selection, and then choose which library your wish to save to. The site will now remember your choice when saving samples to your library. Next, we have iStock Photo. I'm going to first create a new board to save my samples to. Then I'm going to go through my search results to find my image. Once I've found my image, I can hover over the thumbnail preview…

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