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Adobe Stock offers a Find Similar feature that uses an AI image-similarity engine to surface stock assets that visually match a selected image, allowing users to search by content, color, or composition instead of — or in addition to — text keywords.
Details
The Find Similar system accepts an image (either from Adobe Stock search results or uploaded by the user) as input and produces a ranked list of visually similar stock images and videos as output. The underlying technology uses machine learning models that convert images into dense numerical vectors (embeddings) and then compute similarity scores across the collection. Users can refine results by sub-filters: Content (similar subject matter), Color (matching palette), or Composition (similar layout and depth). Adobe's engineering blog described the system as built in partnership with Adobe Research and the Adobe Sensei team.
Products affected
Adobe Stock
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Adobe Stock: Adobe Stock offers a Find Similar feature that uses an AI image-similarity engine to surface stock assets that visually match a selected image, allowing users to search by content, color, or composition instead of — or in addition to — text keywords (data as of 2026-04-22) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/1682c186-93bd-4901-9b4d-f91b0dfa9221. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/1682c186-93bd-4901-9b4d-f91b0dfa9221
- Data as of
- April 22, 2026
- Last verified
- April 22, 2026
Other practices by Adobe Stock
Creative GenAdobe Stock offers AI-powered editing tools, branded as Generative Edits and Generative Variations, that let all stock customers modify existing licensed images before downloading, using features such as background removal, background replacement, image expansion, and style or composition changes. These tools were first made available to business customers in 2024 and became generally available to all stock customers in November 2024.OtherAdobe uses licensed images, vectors, illustrations, and videos contributed to Adobe Stock as training data for its Adobe Firefly family of generative AI models, and pays eligible contributors an annual bonus tied to the volume and licensing performance of their assets used in training.ModerationAdobe Stock uses AI-powered moderation systems to categorize and screen contributor-submitted assets for policy violations, including detecting the use of artist names in AI-generated content metadata and flagging content that may violate intellectual property guidelines.
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