I recently just submitted a bunch of images to the site and went through the torture of having to submit them (a reason I enjoy submitting to StockXpert, not torturous at all).  To skip to the main point here, they rejected 95% of the images.  I am not new to this, I've been doing this stock photography for almost 2 years and I am pretty sure I've gotten pretty good at it (at least the dollar numbers would indicate that) so I've pretty much had enough with Fotolia and its terribly slow site and the ridiculous rejections. 

I just needed to rant a bit - sick and tired of second tier sites rejecting what SS and IS accept and what does well there.

Rejections have been increasing at Fotolia lately, and I don't know why. And, yes, some of them are pretty ridiculous. They are a good money-maker for me, so I'm sticking with them, but the increase in rejections is really annoying. I wonder what's behind it....

Linda B

I am very new to stock. Trying to learn, improve and find my own style. On all sites, where I started with ~50% rejection rate, I'm coming to >90% acceptance. All but fotolia, where I have recently  >90% rejects (most of them - non-technical)

I pretty much given up on the whole resubmit thing, it just isn't worth my time, except for some particular shots on IS or SS where there at least exists the potential to make back the time I spent redoing the PP work, even then, I'll wait until a shot has shown it's meddle elsewhere before I try to redo it, maybe I'm losing out on some earnings, but as my time is finite I just use that time for new shots for all sites instead of getting one shot on a second tier site.  When they rejected it in the first place, it at least was an indication that the shot will probably not be a hot one there, in which case even if I do get a few DL's out of it in the long run, I still wasted my time essentially.

Who knows what goes on in their minds sometimes? Just over the past few days. I had 4 3D renders of cocktails I submistted. In my mind, what was the best one , which is 2 martinis with olives against city lights with awesome reflections, a 3 hour render in radiosity, was rejected for type of photograph.  I already have an order from a local bar for this piece to do wall art with it. The other 3 "similars" (one is one martini, similar lighting, and the other 2 are champagne in a different but similarly lit scene) all went through no problem.

Otherwise, my acceptance there overall has been good. The 2 martini one though, which everyone pretty much gasps at trying to figure out if it's a real photo or digital art, perplexed me. Go figure. Will probably do a re-sub in the future. 

Good luck Unce Gene. Onward and upward.

Its stupidity like that Snurder mentioned that makes me upset, but if I followed that logic I wouldn't submit to SS or Dreamstime either.  However, those produce more money and their processes are much more user-friendly. 

Got a few responses back from my questions and they don't answer questions very well, if at all.  They just paste their generic crap (same answer in two different responses) and don't give a crap about what you are saying. 

So...I will stop uploading, leave whatever files I have and that will be my way of telling them where to go - I'd rather not deal with robots