I Tried Selling AI-Generated Images on Adobe Stock | 2024 Earnings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Discover the journey of building a portfolio of over 13,000 AI-generated stock images on Adobe Stock in just 9 months! In this video, I share my realistic earnings, the challenges of scaling, and the surprising insights I’ve learned about the AI stock photography side hustle. From making just $33 in my first 90 days to hitting $350 by the end of 2024, I test the theory of whether a larger portfolio directly correlates to higher earnings.
If you’re curious about the potential of AI art in the stock photography market or looking for tips on how to sell your own images online, this video is for you! Learn about AI stock image earnings, stock photography submission tips, ChatGPT and Midjourney, the challenges of selling AI images on platforms like Adobe Stock and Shutterstock.
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Hey Julian. I'm uploading to Adobe Stock for a year and a half now and finally I achieved 1000 dollars per month in January. It really need patience and a diverse portfolio.
Did you use AI photos?
@@alibati2 yes
how much your posted image on there? i upload 12 image on there
how many photos did you upload?
@ more than 20k. You should be patient. After a certain point, review times becomes faster and you can upload more images.
I've just started my 3rd TH-cam channel, as I've been more than successful with my last two just in the last 3 months! While I was on Adobe, I noticed the "Sell" icon on the top right thinking, "oh my god, next side hustle! AI Images!" I searched it up on TH-cam about 10 minutes ago thinking, "someone has to have put a video out on this!" and here you are! Thank you Julian! This was more than helpful!
Thank you for your update. I Saw your previous video on adobe stock. I was waiting for this video. Thanks
Crazy video love it. You really do a good job
Thank you!
How to genarate this type image. Sir, please uploaded this tutorial.🙏🙏🙏
Sir we need to full course for Adobe Stock A to Z step by step
are you use midjourney for generate ai image?
I started roughly at the same time (April last year) and currently at 24k+ images. Still climbing in rank and rewards. Last month was 500+ dollars. I've written my own keywording script which made live easier :)
How much you earned in the first month?
@zeo7085 2,78 dollar with 132 images
Perhaps the images you uploaded will start bringing in good profits in about six months. I can see from my portfolio that illustrations need some time to "settle," and then they begin to sell better
This helps a lot!
Hey julian thanks for motivate us. Can you share some reasons, why majority images are rejecting due to pure quality. How can we overcome it? Is there any specific way you doing your upscale process? And how about your rejection ratio??.. just subscribed u..😍
How to avoid getting rejected is easy... you just have to pick the best images out of your generation. Than download and upscale them. After that you go into photoshop and fix the errors in the images as well as the typical AI artifacts. That should be enough to get them approved. If you want to give your customers the best experience you should also color grade the images so they fit the message of the image.
Here are some more general advice I have for everyone:
Hey, just some advice to consider before beginning :)
Before you upload just upscaled images you need to fix all errors and typically AI artifacts in the images.
I use Topaz PhotoAI to upscale and Photoshop to fix artifacts.
Free options are Upscaly and Gimp...
Also before you just upload standard images of apples or abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work. If you upload to much you might be considered spam and Adobe will shadowban you images a stuff them on the last page. And if the work gets rejected more than 30% of the time your account is probably being banned within a few weeks/month
Hey, thanks for the comment! I couldn't say exactly, but I can imagine the main reason could perhaps be that you're not upscaling them further after taking them from Midjourney to increase the pixel size? Or could be the way you categorise, title and keyword them, as Adobe may review them and deem them to incorrect in some way? With the 13,372 images in my portfolio, I've had 1,250 image rejected so far, which means around 10% of my images get rejected.
Thank you so much for these videos
May I ask, if the image generated by AI is PNG type, do we need to convert it to JPEG/JPG when we want to sell it on Adobe Stock? Thank you 🙏🏻
Yes
only transparent background images are accepted as PNG. Others should be JPEG/JPG
Bro I'm preparing my files 😅
Hi 😊, I made $16 on 300 file in 2025 January 25 - 31, I'm just starting work on adobe stock but not to find evergreen ai nish.
Please tell me some evergreen ai nish?
When u started?
@zebi400 January 2025
Good luck friend :)
You have many similar images and similar niches, that is why your earning not grow up properly and having similar(very) images can cause a ban, keep in mind. By the way I have smaller portfolio than yours but my earning is higher.
Farhad, how do you find photo ideas? I'm clearly doing something wrong:) Over 6,000 files in my portfolio and very few sales.
@theredsox Mostly from ChatGPT and Adobestock itself for example tell GPT to write prompt about renewable energy types
@@theredsox ChatGPT and Adobe stock, for example ask GPT to write write me 20 prompts about all the holidays in USA.
Brother how you research niches or according to you what is the best way to research niches..??
I try to use Google trends, but it’s not always the best. Using the “most popular” or “trending” sections on Adobe Stock can give you a good idea of what people are looking for
Something that was not commented on is the amount of DPI at which it is best to upload the image, because the digital image standard is 72dpi, perhaps going up to 300 dpi would be more attractive to customers, could anyone help with this question?
Hello mate, how are you? I want to ask you a question. I recently bought midjourney and I am working on it, but the images are not of the required quality. Even after upscalin, they remain unconvincing. How can I write a prompt to Get high resolution images as real images Or how do you work?
upscale x2 amigo
first improve image sharpness
@@joeladrian8556 really!!
Nice keep updating❤❤
Thanks, I will do!
i can see very bad earn. so should i not start adobe stock?
Hey! I’ve tried it recently. Unfortunately, Adobe Stock rejected all of my pictures due to the quality issues. I generated images with Midjourney and used the upscale tool. But it wasn’t enough 🤔
Gonna try other upscale AI tools and see if it will work.
Did you have this problem? Are you using only Midjourney or you need to upscale images as well? 👋🏻 i’d appreciate your answer
use upscayl software and select 4x and FAST model. and generate abstract background more using midjourney
Before you upload just upscaled images you need to fix all errors and typically AI artifacts in the images.
I use Topaz PhotoAI to upscale and Photoshop to fix artifacts.
Free options are Upscaly and Gimp...
Also before you just upload standard images of apples or abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work.
@@bendix4604 can you tell us how to Photoshop to fix artifacts ?? Sugestion any video? and thank you so much
@@ibrahimantar9078 just rubber and stamp tool
I made 50$ this month ( january) with only 667 images till date
That's really impressive!
bro i think you need to improve your portfolio instead of quantity my portfolio is around 15,000+ my earning is around $5-10 daily. i started in May last year.
Wow
Hi great video. That being said, i thought for AI imagese we could only list them under illustrations?
So, how did you be able to publish your images under the photos option without breaking adobe stock terms and conditions?
Thanks and will be watching back for your reply to the above questions.
Hello and thank you very much. I'm not sure where that is stated on the terms and conditions and I can't say I've seen that mentioned, but I have uploaded pretty much all of my AI images as photos and have had around 90% of them approved by Adobe. Assuming that you tick the "created using AI" box, I don't see why there would be any issues.
Brother, should i go with one specific category or should i do multiple?
Adobe algorithm rates every image in your portfolio individually. So you do not need to focus on only one niche. From my experience it's easier to do a collection of a few images for one niche and relevant sub niches. After that you can focus on another niche.
Here is some more advice I would give anyone who is starting:
Hey, just some advice to consider before beginning :)
Before you upload just upscaled images you need to fix all errors and typically AI artifacts in the images.
I use Topaz PhotoAI to upscale and Photoshop to fix artifacts.
Free options are Upscaly and Gimp...
Also before you just upload standard images of apples or abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work.
@@bendix4604 thankyou😊
Can you share how you give keyword or tagging on your image when upload Broo
With automatic or manual
@@rommimahendra2951 manual and best search chatgpt he suggests
why you are not uploading this pictures on others websites 🤔🤔
Where would you recommend?
Does adobe stock charge any commision from us if we sell images on their website if yes then how much is it.
no Adobe stock does not charge anything. You just upload your work, and it then goes to review, and after review, they are available for sale
Bro, your keywords are too short, I just looked at your portfolio
I was thinking that, as I've been using ChatGPT to help me speed up the process for keywords. Maybe requesting ChatGPT to use long-tail keywords instead should help, what's your suggestions?
@@Julian_Adams you can ask chatgpt to make 50 keyword. And you need to optimize first 10 keyword
@ long-tail keywords are no good for Adobe Stock. They don't recommend it
I’m at 21k my goal is 50k but main goal is 500k that I jus sit an let it collect
how long 21k bro, great !
@ 4months not even a year on my account
So your thumbnail is completely inaccurate then?
ofc
He intends to get there 🤣
Many people have questions about Upscaler, so if you can, please make a video about Upscaler.
Yeah no problem, the upscaler I use is the following: bit.ly/aienlarger
It's recently changed as compared to my previous videos where it's shown, but it's still the same, just a different layout and branding. I use the "AI Image Upscaler" under the "AI Tools" dropdown box. I've also experimented with both the 200% and 400% upscale options and have found that most images work well with the 400% option, but sometimes it can ruin the image and do too much. So when that happens, I just redo the image at 200% instead and it seems to be fine. I will include a better explanation in my next video.
Best free upscaler for this?
upscayl
@@ReactorBD 🤣
kindly share your adobe stock portfolio link or store link
Please your stock profile link
I made 434 usd in January with 7090images
That's amazing! How long have you been doing Adobe Stock?
@@Julian_Adams I started on September 2024 . I earned 7567usd within 1.4 years of now .
Totel 8479 images.
Just do research and generate images . Focus on writing good keywords and description.
Can I sell pictures and videos without filling out a tax form?
If you are outside the USA, then yes, you can leave it tax form.
But in this case, you will be charged 30% of your income when withdrawing funds from Adobe Stock.
nice. i saw a video from a guy who has 10k images and make 160 downloads in a week. he earned almost 400$ in january idk how he does that xD i have 7k images and my downloads are atm not growing xD maybe the new images needs some time.
Also depends on the niche one is serving. I have a portfolio size of around 20 k assets (12k images 8k videos) which equals to about 100 to 120 downloads a week. Most of my images are old and in very saturated niches. Nowadays I do more videos which get way more downloads due to good researche and good quality
Just a simple guide on how to niche research:
Hey, just some advice to consider before beginning :)
Before you just upload standard images of apples or the million and first abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work.
Quality and research is key not the number of total assets.
@@bendix4604 ok nice ^^ yea sure my portfoilo has the basic images i would say, some abstract backgrounds, some people, landscape, funny animals and those kind of stuff and ofc some of this stuff can make a sale here and there, and what i think the first sale is the hardest, often i see a first sale on a image, and some days later on it get its second sale, cuz maybe its ranking higher. but true need to focus on each image more specific now, i got the "basic" stuff in my portfolio now need to look for more quality.
i also saw someone on yt with 98k images on adobe, vector stuff , he had like idk 50-100 downloads in a week..how can u have so many images and just so low downloads that makes no sense.^^
images size??
For images you should do around 4K. But the size is not the most important thing.
Here is some advice I have for everyone looking to start:
Hey, just some advice to consider before beginning :)
Before you upload just upscaled images you need to fix all errors and typically AI artifacts in the images.
I use Topaz PhotoAI to upscale and Photoshop to fix artifacts.
Free options are Upscaly and Gimp...
Also before you just upload standard images of apples or abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work. If you upload to much you might be considered spam and Adobe will shadowban you images a stuff them on the last page. And if the work gets rejected more than 30% of the time your account is probably being banned within a few weeks.
@@bendix4604 My portfolio size is 10k images, but this week I haven't been able to sell a single image. Is my profile shadow banned?
@@bendix4604thanks for the tip! One question, do vertical images also sell well?
12000 images uploaded within 2 weeks? that means you uploaded more than 800 images per day? hows that even possible
I spent 2 weeks doing nothing but uploads to Adobe stock, but I had spent 1-2 months before hand generating the images within midjourney and upscaling them to prepare for a mass upload of them all. I should have made that clearer in the video so thank you for pointing that out
@@Julian_Adamsjust as a tip. Adobe doesn't like mass uploads so much. It's more effective to upload a few images each day and consistently.
Do you mind if I ask how you generated 10k images? That's just a crazy amount if I consider the time I need to pick the best images of the generation, upscale them, fix errors and improve the image in photoshop, title and keyword them. And that dose not even include the time I spend in research. I can do around 5 to 10 really high quality images ready to upload an hour.
Would be cool if you could make a video about the whole process you have from the research over the generations, the editing in photoshop, color grading to the upload to Adobe:)
I agree, a better way would have been for me to do it gradually over a longer time span. But I was so set on reaching 10,000 images, I kind of went overboard and started using ChatGPT to do most of my Midjourney prompts based on the trends it had researched across the web. Which did save me a lot of time, and meant I only had to select and upscale the images that I deemed to be of high enough quality for further upscaling and then to be uploaded.
That's a good idea, with the next video I will add that in and show the entire process!
Nice video. Very interesting and going to give this a try as well.
Thank you! Let me know how you get on
Hey, just some advice to consider before beginning :)
Before you upload just upscaled images you need to fix all errors and typically AI artifacts in the images.
I use Topaz PhotoAI to upscale and Photoshop to fix artifacts.
Free options are Upscaly and Gimp...
Also before you just upload standard images of apples or abstracts backgrounds do research on what customers want and look for niches that have less than 10 search pages. e.g. aging black women exercising (vertical) = 374 search results which are 4 pages. Also most of the images aren't relevant to that topic.
My advice for research ist starting with one big in demand category (in my case aging) and than narrow down in a smaller niche (in my case in the first step I used black, than exercise and lastly Vertical)
I hope that helps you.
Please only upload your best work and do not spam uploads. I do not know anyone archiving more than 1000 very high quality images per month. And even 1000 is a lot. I would stick to like 300-500 a month to ensure the quality of your work.
How to do bulk metadata
I'm not sure on this one I'm afraid, I haven't tried it.
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Thank you! For the next video I will include a section where I show the entire process to starting and growing a portfolio on Adobe Stock, so hopefully that should help!
It needs quality or quantity to grow or make sales??
@@jawadahmed7935 Quality bro.
Hii
Hello!