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Rejection reason:
"Noticeable retouching"
This comment was made on a painting (causing rejection on all submitted images).
Still sure you know everything going on in every Alamy inspector's mind?  (brick wall against stone head it seems....)  

But whatever, I have now said 20 times I now understand their procedure, think it sucks and that is it. You like it, good for you. If this thread made more people aware of the "ridiculous procedure" - good, because I went through the historic threads and I know I am in good company in either not quite getting it in the beginning or finding it silly. So you are now welcome to insult everybody with the same problem as much as you like. This thread has became a waste of everybody's time about 8 entries back, so please take your last shot now and let us close this one down (yawn.......).
Cheers.

Hope it works out for you, with the SoLD and the, noticeable retouching, (which no one here can see because you have no links or samples, and you are anonymous) it will be tough getting past their inspection process. Hopefully you'll figure it out. Usually it's much easier to see what someone is talking about when they link to a 100% sample of the rejected image.

Maybe you should try this? The Alamy QC forum, there are much more experienced members there who have been with Alamy for many more years than I have. Maybe they can help you?

http://alamy.com/forums/Default.aspx?g=topics&f=15

I should have suggested that to start with instead of trying to explain it myself. Go to the Alamy QC forum and ask there. I'm sure you'll get better help.

That is so sweet YadaYadaYada! But you by accident posted into a thread - self portraits should rather be used through the avatar upload facility....(it is so you).

+1 and welcome. You will luckily find very few "YadaYadas" here.    Most members delivers constructive and useful contributions.  

Sorry if I just thought he was a little slow and I was kind of shooting from the hip. I tried to be more informative after that, but failed.

I really wonder who he is and if he ever got anything accepted on Alamy. That's the trouble with anonymous, you can't look at the photos and give useful help.

There was some waffling about photos of paintings and I got lost in all the hundreds of pictures submitted and "one fail all fail" which has been in place since people mailed in CDs and 48MB files! Now that must have been a tough rejection to take!

Yeah, Alamy is a different beast but worth the effort if you play by their rules. I still upload in small  batches as the risk vs reward is too high. Their all or nothing policy is based on the assumption that every image you upload is from the same shoot and that they are all the same quality. I've had  a couple of their SOLD rejections and have learned to keep all images in my Alamy folder until they are reviewed. If I get a rejection, I delete the image they rejected and take another careful look at the rest of the batch. If I still think they are ok, I upload the entire batch again minus the reject. I've never had a second rejection.

OTH, my highest sales there are mundane but well executied shots that would get an LCV at the quarter a pop sites.

My wishlist would be that, now that you don't have to get a check in the mail (they discontinued beaver pelts last year) that the payment threshold was a bit lower.

Yeah, batches have nothing to do with when you upload but when they review. Sometimes reviews happen within 24 hours, other times it can take weeks. Regardless, anything you upload in that period is the same batch to them.

Anything British.



 Just kidding. You never know what will sell there. Since Measures is back up and running, you can look at what people are searching for. My first sale there was just a garden hose rolled up beside a house. Got $60 (my cut) for textbook image. That shot would have never ever made it to a Micro site.

Me too, it's simply unpredictable on Alamy.
My last sale was a shot of a bank, poor lighting, poor framing, poor keywording, and yet it sold (15$ my net cut).
My best images instead never made a sale nor a single zoom.