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rant...rant....rant...

Now I'm getting really annoyed with Dreamstime. I had just a small batch rejected most likely because I had earlier been uploading images of the same subjects. Of one subject I had uploaded one image and got it approved. Now I was going to upload  two more and the both were rejected with a "Too many photos/illustrations on the same subject or from the same series. " message.

And believe me, all the three shots were different and included both vertical and horizontal versions, and the both horizontal ones had a very different composition and different copy space.

Second subject was an object containing text, I had a horizontal version and two vertical versions shot from different directions (left/right). I only got only vertical accepted. Don't they know that an image with text cannot be flipped during the layout?

I wish the reviewers had even some clue about graphic design / layout work...

Of my Big5 Fotolia and Dreamstime seem to piss me off with their stupid rejection reasons. iStock seems to be very consistent, SS comes as a good second. Can't say too much about SX because they accept almost everything.

Totally agree. DT's weird rejections have made me stop uploading recently.

As if FT's Attila has been moonlighting in DT. 

Yeah, that's my big one there too. It's not so much that they reject the images for me. It's that it disrupts my workflow. I used to be able to immediately upload everything to Shutterstock and Dreamstime and then upload things to iStock as my uploads became available. Now if a series is more than 2 or 3 images, I have to break it up for Dreamstime.

sounds more like something for the AGENCY to address -- once a designer finds the couple they like, they would probably appreciate a wide choice - bits are cheap, so why not offer both

  using image analysis software you could probably show only 1 or 2 from any series, with a link to 'more f the same'.   this would be a way for a newer MS agency to really distinguish themselves

steve