Thanks for the reply's. I only receive microstock payments on my Paypal account but don�t want to pay a fee over them.

I just requested a payout at Dreamstime and Canstock and will see if a fee is being deducted.

To be honest with you, I cant really see anything working in P or fully Auto modes. For starters if you shoot in Raw, which you should do, all in-camera settings should be zeroed, especially sharpness and noise-red, these are the ones causing artifacts and noise.

It's my understanding that in-camera settings are used for JPEG-creation. The camera always shoots RAW, uses the settings and create a JPEG and then deletes the RAW if you didnt choose to keep it. RAW is data straight from the sensor.

I use Noise Ninja. It's used for almost every shot I take. You can select which part of the image needs noise reduction and how much and add a bit of USM sharpening too. Many of my shots are taken with ISO 200 which really require noise reduction to be accepted. Noise Ninja does the job for me.

I'd suggest you do more then just isolated shots. Go to your local airport, harbor, industrial parc, etc,etc. And shoot as much as different subjects as you can. Than upload small batches a couple of times a week with 1 or 2 shots per subject. That's how I do it. I have almost no isolations and people shots (except editiorial events) and still make about $1 per image per month.

Just a small slightly off-topic question:

Does anyone know if there were also Extended Licenses involved in these fraudulent purchases? Because I've been with IS for over a year and never had an EL with them and now have 2 within one week.

Mostly just typing the first word (if it's longer than the second) will get you in. Also capitals and punctuation marks don't have to be typed. But it stays annoying.

I have about 350 shots on IS. Half of them are on PP. In January 40% of my IS income came from PP.

I deleted my port from Cutcaster about a year ago and my account has been inactive since then. Now I thought I'd give it a try again with some new shots but how do I upload on the new website?

The help page says:
login and click on "My Account." Within your Account, click on Media Files and then Upload Media Files


But there is no "Media Files" tab in my account to be found 

I have the same list as click_click on the right. No Partner Program tab. But if I go to "View my portfolio" i do see the PP tab. Clicking that shows my uploads but not my pp-sales. I use W7 64bit & Firefox

I 've just sended an email to support.

Thanks I found the tab but when I go there I only see my portfolio with IS-sales. Not the PP sales.

I've had some editorials accepted awhile ago but I can't see them in my portfolia. Do they keep editorial and RF separated?