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well, I've uploaded 3 pictures yesterday and they were rejected.

can you help me choose another 3 pictures to upload?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/

I take it you mean your initial application - bear in mind though that iStock don't judge the initial application by the same criteria they use for accepting images.

What they are looking for initially is an indication of your ability to compose different types of subject, your "eye for a picture" as it were, not technical nit picking about noise or artifacts or whatever (you'll get plenty of that later).

Did they reject all three, and what reason did they give?  If you sent them three similar subjects, they may just want to see something different so they can make a better judgment.

Be aware too that, once you get it, the initial images must be resubmitted and will be judged much more closely so they won't necessarily be accepted first time.

You HAVE to submit 3 totally different photos. Avoid Sun in your images. Make 3 images in different lighting conditions, different subject and different situations. When I say different subject, I mean drastically different subject (a person, a building, a food, an animal)

You have an useful "basic standars" tutorial here:

http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=524

I don't see anything particularly stock oriented there, but these are the three I like the best compositionwise:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3253039608/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3255670609/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3231618871/

I would retake that last one of the glasses on the book with a better camera besides your phone. 

Other than the ones Lisa suggested, here are a few that I would try-

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3347731656/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3385524404/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15720939@N04/3426892797/

good luck

I didn't notice the date, oops, just saw it at the top of the threads here and clicked on it.