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Hello, i'm new to istock and trying to figure the quality out.
Can you please check and inform if the following 2 picture is acceptable or not?
Thank you.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23976648/IMG_2884-2drop.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23976648/IMG_5099-2drop.jpg

Thank you for the comments.

About the box, i couldn't understand the problematic  part you mention.
Can you please advise more detailed?

The Box:
You also need to focus to the correct distance: the photo with the box is focused in the closest corner. A much better focus would be in the bow knot. Now the knot is blurry and it bothers me, also you have depth of field in the front of the object that you don't use.
The ribbon is a bit loose.
There's also a lump of background colour bottom right.
There is a turquoise "halo" in the edges.
By removingthe biggest dust spots (maybe a dozen) would be time well spent, it only takes a few seconds.

The Money:
Why are almost all of the money upside down?
Lighting could be more interesting / better.
Some of the money are used and a bit dirty. In a shot like this I think a decision should be made: either new clean money or money that looks clearly used.
A shot of this kind should be really, really good because sites arealredy full of pictures of euros already.

No, just white dust spots on the box. Look the image at 100% and clone out the spots (you can always find more by magnifying even more, but IMHO that's useless) There are only something between a dozen and 20 spots that bother most.

I'd be surprised if any of these make it through the IS application.

The last money shot specifically looks too soft IMO.

And not only that, it's the creative side that iStock wants to see.

Anyone can shoot a gift box over white or bills of money on a table.

Look at the shots on iStock with these subjects and see how you can improve those shots!

yep box won´t go in, do it again, feather the selection

Take your pen tool and carefully outline the edge of the box. You've just created a path. Save the path. Convert the path to a selection. Feather the selection 2 or 3 pixels. Go to Layer>New>Layer via Copy. Now you have a clean edge all the way around the box. Create a new white layer under your new Box layer, and merge.

By the way, go back to your Path and convert it to a Clipping Path. Isolated objects with Clipping Paths are much sought after.

Yes, I have proof. Some of my sales result from searches the have "clipping path" in them. When I buy from microstock, if given the choice between two similar images I will always choose the one with a clipping path. It's just less work. Besides, if you have already gone to the trouble of creating an isolation with a path, why not include the path? It's not any extra work.

Certain designers only use images with clipping paths. I worked for a large firm that produced newspaper inserts, flyers, broadsheets, and other multi-page advertising sections. If the images they purchased did not have paths I had to create them which was very time-consuming (think grocery store ads where great looking fruit and vegetable images are used all the time). Just a note, most sites do not retain the path you created in all sizes of the images they sell, only your originally uploaded image. So, buyers may think that they are getting the path but if they buy certain sizes, the path is stripped out by the size conversion process.

Here are the steps: Once you create the path, you must Save Path. (Path 1) Then go to the drop down menu in the Paths palette, and click on Clipping Path. You will notice that the title "Path 1" changes to an outline font.