I uploaded some files that had been accepted everywhere! in micro and RF. Reason: wanted to test the reviewing, wanted to figure out if 123, treated reviewing as a human process.
Im now totally convinced, they actually switch on some sort of automated reviewing program, whereby the program cant tell the differance between various technical aspects of lightning-techniques, cant tell the differance between toning and White-balance, etc.
When I finally did upload a file which I knew  well was slightly poor in lightning, it was accepted.

So whats this supposed to be?  the joke of the centuary? scewing around with peoples time?

Ive had enough of this amateurish poor editing business, they are treating it with arrogance and then they can jolly well sit there with the automations. The site is a joke, MRs are forever getting stuck, no OK buttons, leaving you to switch between pages, etc.

The reviewing is the worst of all sites, automated reviewing that really can only figure and review generic stuff. Also shows in their portfolio, you really have to look hard to find anything creative.
Same with a friend of mine, also like myself an IS-diamond, also put it to test and same stupid result. we are out of it.

I find their MR process the easiest of all the sites and never had a problem with refusals. Sales for me are about the same as bigstock so if you do well there then they are worth persevering with.

OK,  my images are regular well lit stock stuff. I don't remember ever having a problem with MRs.

Never had a rejection for lighting there, had a few for similars but generally speaking I find their review process a breeze including the MR process.

Somehow I always liked 123RF, first of all because they don't have categories, second because of a high acceptance rate, and third because of decent sales.
Only once I had to write to support to ask for a re-review.

Decent sales for me everything that is better than 50% of Dreamstime, and 123RF oscillates from 50% - 70% of DT sales from month to month. At least fot me 123RF was always way better than Fotolia.

Bigstock sales are 10 times better than 123RF.

that�s incredible, the changes between contributors, ok portfolio, buyers and so on but I have like 5 to 10 sales a month at BigStock and on 123RF I got like 60

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I do see BigStock acting slow slow don�t understand as they approve almost everything, got almost 4k crappy/average pictures there

Decent sales for me everything that is better than 50% of Dreamstime, and 123RF oscillates from 50% - 70% of Dreamstime sales from month to month. At least fot me 123RF was always way better than Fotolia.

123rf earns about 20% of what dreamstime does for me. Basically same portfolio on each

Sales for me on 123 are the same as BS.  However, 123 sales were dismal compared to BigStock until I went in and put 10 percent of my port into FAVES.  If you haven't done this you should.  I saw decent ramp up in sales, something like 25%.

Quote from: Mantis on May 22, 2011, 18:46

Sales for me on 123 are the same as BS.  However, 123 sales were dismal compared to BigStock until I went in and put 10 percent of my port into FAVES.  If you haven't done this you should.  I saw decent ramp up in sales, something like 25%.

5%

Is it 5%? My mistake.  Either way it helps to some extent, more so with larger ports.  I have about 2500 images.

Oh yes, I forgot about "Faved". I always add new images in the faved folder, and those images have most downloads. And from time to time, if I see that some image doesn't have enough downloads even it's placed in there, I exclude it from faved, and add a new one.

Quote from: Dreamframer on May 23, 2011, 07:47

Oh yes, I forgot about "Faved". I always add new images in the faved folder, and those images have most downloads. And from time to time, if I see that some image doesn't have enough downloads even it's placed in there, I exclude it from faved, and add a new one.

Can you still do that? Last time I looked I couldn't see anything to click on to remove a previous "fave". Maybe it moved or am I missing something? Regards, David.

Yes you can still do that. When on the my fave images page, make sure you click "My Fave Images" and not the "My Images" to remove favourite images, then go back to "my images" to add new ones.

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Quote from: Dreamframer on May 23, 2011, 07:47

Oh yes, I forgot about "Faved". I always add new images in the faved folder, and those images have most downloads. And from time to time, if I see that some image doesn't have enough downloads even it's placed in there, I exclude it from faved, and add a new one.

Can you still do that? Last time I looked I couldn't see anything to click on to remove a previous "fave". Maybe it moved or am I missing something? Regards, David.

Yes you can still do that. When on the my fave images page, make sure you click "My Fave Images" and not the "My Images" to remove favourite images, then go back to "my images" to add new ones.

Dohh! Thanks Komar, I was overlooking that small detail! Regards, David.

Thanks for the tip about faved. I've never noticed that before. I always get lost in the messy menus on 123rf.

My advice is to choose images that don't already have million of copies all around internet. For example, don't put images with business people in faved. If you choose the images correctly, it's almost guaranteed that they will show up on the first page of the results.