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Try redoing the links.

I don't think these will fly - sorry.

The skateboarding image has focus on the knees & jeans instead of the eyes - lighting's not ideal either.

Lighting on the girl drinking is a problem - you needed a reflector for fill

The frog isolation is terrible - all sorts of edges are eaten away because you didn't do your selection carefully.

The first two are great subjects - i.e. try to do those again; the frog's not a good idea as it'd be a copyright problem and if you can't isolate objects well, don't include an isolation in your set

I'm trying to take emotion out of this, but what do you mean is it a joke?

I haven't submitted any of these yet, these are the ones I thought I would try but apparantly not.

And always reduce the image size to a minimum for the application. It can help a lot.

reduce the size/dimensions of the image to the smallest acceptable.  this will help out in making noise and other imperfections less noticeable.  i didn't think about this either for submissions, so i think i'll take it, too.

good luck!  keep your chin up and keep shooting and editing.

I really don't mean to sound dense here, but these kind of things are not spelled out (at least not that I can find).

BTW thanks to all of you for helping, I'm really getting tired of the rejection (and yes, getting a little discouraged)  That's why I'm hear to try to avoid it this time around.

See this is where part of my frustration comes in, Sean said is this a joke, well I don't know when I read that if he means subject, composition, quality or what.  I'm not picking on Sean, but this is kind of what the reviewers give me and I don't know what to work on.

They are spelled out - in the photographer training manual. See this section.

Your isolation of the frog looks like you selected it using the magic wand tool and are missing large pieces of the frog(look at the edges at 100% and you will understand). If the frog was perfectly isolated and properly lit, it would likely still not get accepted (what commercial value is in that object - what would a buyer use it for (I've been wrong before about commercial value mind you)? Also, it is artwork and probably would need a property release.

The lighting on the other two is not very good. You didn't use flash and the lighting is harsh for the skateboarder and too dark for the girl. You can shoot both of these with a single off-shoe flash and a deflector (or use two deflectors and bounce the flash off of one of them). You need to soften the light from the flash - you can use a second deflector to bounce the flash off of if you don't have an umbrella.

Is you're monitor calibrated? When I first started in microstock I couldn't understand why my isolations were being rejected. Turned out my monitor was way too dark and when I eventually had a look at the images on a computer at work I realized what the problem was (my first isolations were worse than your frog). There are a lot of tutorials on isolations - they are not difficult to do. That frog isolation would only take a few minutes using the pen tool.

Regards,

They are not great but I do like the kid with the skateboard, that and the girl drinking should be good enough... Istock has a lot-lot crappier stuff up & selling. The focus on the kid is not perfect, it would fly if you were exclusive or an inspector, but I suggest resizing it a bit smaller +adding some selective sharpening to the eye +crop out the roadsign. If you want to reshoot these, have the girl drink from a transparent bottle, the mineral water kind, it's  a lot more attractive visually.

to be honest, I thought maybe the frog was a joke too. sorry to the OP but even beyond the incredibly poor isolation is the subject itself. what is it supposed to be? a toy? a balloon?

I think the first two shots are nice family photos but not good stock. the second is nicely in focus, but lots of noise, dark and flat and just not interesting. the first is a cute shot and the same subject done on a better background, with better composition and better lighting/processing...it could be a good stock photo of a child skateboarding.

good luck :-)