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Hello, newbie here, just subscribed to a couple sites, got some pictures up in Fotolia, on the queue with DT and IS and tried Shutterstock too (maybe a little too soon).
So got my first rejection in SS, now I was trying to understand which ones they liked (most of the initial 10 photos were ok for FT, so maybe...).
I've been very careful about noise, ran noiseninja on all pictures and even downsampled some.
I've got 1 rejected for limited commercial value and 1 for lighting, but the remaining 8 were rejected with "7 of 10 must be approved" without any other reason, is it just normal?
Well, retrying in a month, maybe with a completely different batch with photos approved on the other sites.

Yep, thanks, that was the question!

i stand corrected.
I must admit i don't read the shutterstock forums too often.  Good someone here, hangs around there once in a while.

Thanks for the tip about recent problems with their first 10 approval system.  The first time I tried, all 10 were rejected mainly for noise, I purchased noise ninja, waited a month and tried again with 7 of the same images and 3 new ones.  Two were rejected for limited commercial value, the other 8 just said not approved.  I emailed shutterstock and inquired whether or not my submittal was affected by their system problem, and they replied that my account was approved that 8 had actually been approved, but a software error flagged them as being rejected.

Thanks for the info, that led to me asking them for a clarification via email, and now my account has been approved.

oh wow, so you are in congrats

good luck then, good thing you wrote the email!