Author Topic: Just Reached my First Payout on DT! (Read 2640 times)

Carl · « **on:** September 14, 2011, 06:30 »

I'm celebrating because this morning, I awoke to discover that I had reached payout on DT for the first time! I've been uploading there since April 9 of last year. If you're interested in my stats:

Uploaded files: 641
Total sales: 112
Acceptance ratio: 47%*

*I think they go way overboard on rejections because of the "too many similar images" thing. For example, they approved this one...

...and rejected this one because it's similar...

I'll be the first to admit that they're similar because I used the same cell phone image, but one says "Christmas," and the other says "Phone." I would say that they're dissimilar enough to approve both. The friendly folks at Fotolia are of a "similar" mindset (bad pun intended) because they approved both.

Oddly enough, the inspectors at SS didn't approve any of the cell phone photos I sent to them because of copyright violation issues, even though I removed every vistige of brand names and logos. They're the only ones.

digitalexpressionimages · « **Reply #1 on:** September 14, 2011, 07:07 »

In a perfect world all agencies would have a standardized set of criteria for reviewing images and then accetance/rejection would at least be consistent across all of them. It is interesting to see how different sites deal with these things.

As to your image I think it was deemed too similar because the second one is, as you say, just an edited version of the first. In fact you could achieve the same effect without even using Photoshop. Even Microsoft Word allows you to do that by placing the phone image in Word, creating a new image box on top and lining it up with the edges of the screen then inserting a new shot you could do the same thing. If you'd shot it in such a way that doing the edit was difficult to achieve they might have taken it because not all buyers have photoshop skills.

Carl · « **Reply #2 on:** September 14, 2011, 10:13 »

You have a good point. On the other hand, I can also cook my own burgers and fries, but you'd be amazed at how often I buy them already cooked.

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