Shutterstock is a content creator’s digital haven, offering the best AI tools, design solutions, and more. Get the ins and outs of what our customers are saying about what they love and use Shutterstock for.
Shutterstock was recently awarded G2’s 2023 Top 50 Design Products, Best in Software, and Best in Usability. It’s no wonder why. Our extensive product lineup of stock media, ranging from high-quality visual and audio assets to its groundbreaking, new visual editing and generative AI tools.
Long-evolving from a popular stock media library, Shutterstock has become a comprehensive “one-stop-shop” for all things creative. We offer a range of products and services that empower artists, designers, creative teams, and small businesses.
In this blog post, let’s explore three different Shutterstock products—Create, Predict, and our AI image generator. We’ll dive into how these three products, along with Shutterstock’s stock libraries, are elevating creators to new and untapped creative heights. You can also learn about other customer success stories here.
Embracing the Future of Intelligent Creativity
Create: Transform Your Ideas Into Reality
Create is a dynamic platform that enables users to transform their ideas into reality. By providing users with a suite of powerful tools and features, users can not only bring their projects to life, but they can also enhance creativity and streamline their creative-work process. Create’s highlights include:
- An easy-to-use visual content and photo editor
- Ready-made project templates for business materials, social posts, and printable projects
- Quick access to Shutterstock’s vast collection of images, illustrations, vectors, and more
Shutterstock is an incredible destination for anyone looking for professional designs for their business. [It] has an enormous range of high-quality and business-relevant media for your business needs. Shutterstock editor also lets us tweak these designs to fit the desired requirements without the intervention of graphic designers or any other help.
Sai P., Content and Retention Manager
Shutterstock has the availability of stock content like images, illustrators, videos, and soundtracks and I can customize the available designs as per my needs with the help of Shutterstock’s Editor to create different designs by adding texts, brand logos, changing backgrounds and so on and the quality of content is very professional and impressive . . . In my current organization, there is always a spontaneous requirement for creatives and there are different categories to work with. In this case, Graphic designers’ bandwidth is always limited and choked therefore with the help of Shutterstock we can always provide the initial base templates and inspiration on the whole outlook of the design. Shutterstock has helped us create a quality design from scratch at scale, and in a very short spend of time.
Monali T., Graphic Designer
The Best AI Tools
Predict: Data Forecasts Your Creative Needs
Predict is another innovative offering by Shutterstock that utilizes advanced algorithms and data analysis to forecast future creative needs. Through leveraging vast amounts of data, including search patterns, user behavior, and market trends, Predict enables users to stay ahead of the curve.
It delivers valuable insights and predictions for upcoming trends. Just set your campaign goals, select your social channels, and enter your image needs. In a few seconds, AI will predict which images and color palettes will perform best for you.
Generative AI: The Best AI Image Generator for Commercial Use
Shutterstock’s generative AI harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to create totally unique, custom imagery that’s based on a text description. Create at the speed of your imagination. Generate anything you can dream up, license it, then import it into Shutterstock’s Create tool to use it in your graphic design.
Because our AI is ethically built, and our models are trained on Shutterstock visual content, our generative tool produces content that is ready for commercial use. This means you can create, worry-free.
(Still) The Best of the Best Stock Photo Companies
Despite the expansion into AI-powered products and Creative tools, Shutterstock is still at the forefront of the stock media industry. Visual and audio stock content are at the heart of our offerings.
Extensive Library of Stock Images and Video
Visual storytelling is a powerful tool, and Shutterstock understands the impact of compelling stock content in your stories.
Elevate your projects to new heights by featuring beautiful content from the world’s most extensive library of visual assets. Shutterstock’s library includes millions of images, illustrations, vectors, and an extensive collection of stock footage, motion graphics, and animations.
Whether you need cinematic clips for a film, engaging visuals for social media campaigns, or dynamic animations for presentations, you can find it all here.
The number of images and video assets are staggering. We always have no trouble finding images to suit any topic for our branding needs . . . The quality of images and breadth of what they offer has truly saved us so much money over the past six years.
Alisa B.
Captivating Music and Audio
Pull from a diverse selection of royalty-free music tracks and sound effects to add depth and emotion to your work. From uplifting melodies, to ambient soundscapes, and energetic beats, your project’s perfect sound effects are on Shutterstock.
The best part is that you can download footage and music, as well as images, and customize them as per your project needs. This is ideal for video projects like (videos for) YouTube, that automatically scan your videos for copyrighted backing tracks and footage. By using Shutterstock content, your project will come with licensing that complies with website guidelines.
Raghav A., Content Creator
Go Even Further with Pond5
As a part of the Shutterstock family, Pond5 provides artists, filmmakers, musicians, and other creative professionals a diverse collection of content to bring their creative projects to life. In fact, Pond5’s content has been used everywhere–from Oscar-winning movies to independent films.
As with the visual and audio assets on Shutterstock, Pond5’s integrate smoothly with popular video editing and design software, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe After Effects.
Pond5 has been my go-to site when I’m in need of music or sound effects, but don’t want to spend an arm and a leg. Their advanced search tool really fine-tunes the results to specific BPM, length, mood, genre etc . . . As an animator and motion designer, I often need both music and sound effects for personal, as well as professional, projects. I appreciate the convenience of a site that offers both.
Matt B., Motions Graphic Designer
Your All-In-One Intelligent Haven for Content Creation
Shutterstock offers beautiful stock photography and so much more. It now stands as a creative powerhouse for designers, marketers, filmmakers, and content creators. Learn more about our customers’ experiences by visiting our G2 profile below. And if you’re ready to create something new, explore Shutterstock today!
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