About 250 images on average on line (very small portfolio). Roughy 0.80 RPI.

DT 44.5%
SS 40.7%
IS 9.3%

everything else is just noise (<3%).

I'm not someone who complains on rejections infact I'm not going to complain even after I got 208 out of 208 rejected here. I've been doing this for just 10 months, i have lots to learn, so I can't really complain if a shot taken at f/11 with focus at infinity is rejected for "out of focus". Well, not one, a hundred of them. It means to me I have to learn to focus better, at infinity.

My only suggestion to the team is to  give more info on your rejections, some of them really don't make much sense, but at least I had a couple of good laughs

Thanks for your help and good luck.

I know, it sounds like I'm complaining... but... come on... out of focus... ah ah ah

I got overly ambitious with my first batch and sent 118.  It failed QC. 

My second batch of only 25 passed though, so it looks like the advice here to take my time and do smaller batches is right on the money.

From what I read on Alamy forum, they suggest batches from 10 to 20/25 images to minimise QC fails. I usually submit 8/10/12 cause my production is very small. I find the QC process of Alamy pretty easy to pass once you follow the few rules.

Excellent job, I'll use it. Thanks.

Over 3 GB of memory - XP doesn't recognize more than that, and I don't think 32-bit does either.  However, more RAM = less paging file usage, which makes it faster when you have a program, aka CS3 or CS4, that uses a paging file. 

Vista 32bit can only see up to 4gb of addressing space (let's call it ram, but it's not really that) of which only about 3gb are usable by user software, cause 1gb is reserved for the OS. A single process (Photoshop for example) can only use up to 2gb of address space.
In practice, if you have 4gb of ram, Vista will only see about 3, any single program can only use 2.

You would need to have a program optimized for 64-bit for it to make a difference.  Yes, its up for debate, but the increased RAM availability makes up for it more than anything else.  Yes Vista uses alot, but don't forget you can turn off all those little crappers that suck up so there are tweaks

Very true indeed. When considering purely processing speed, 64bit software tends to be slower in the common case, for reasons that are really boring to explain here, unless someone is really really interested in them
The whole point of using Vista 64, as I do, is as you say being able to address more than 3gb, which means that if you have 8gb of installed ram, for example, CS4 can see all of them!
More ram equals less virtual memory trashing, less accesses to the slow HD, everything much faster if your files tend to be large and you tend to process more files at the same time.

Peter, about the GPU: CS4 uses the GPU only to run some filters, not for demosaicing as far as I know. That's still done on the CPU. The GPU is a nice beast, but not everything can be easily parallelised to use the GPU efficiently and it surely takes time to move as much as possible from the CPU to the GPU in CS4. They started with filters (blurs, resizing, that kind of stuff). For example a gaussian blur filter on the GPU is quite common and well understood.

I believe that if you have more than 4gb ram installed in Vista 64 and lots of files to process, you can expect CS4 to be faster than CS3.

I think SS (and probably most sites) have a good idea of how many times an image must sell to payback their investment in it (reviewer time, storage, etc.) and so reviewers base their LCV rejections on that number of DLs.  Doesn't mean it won't sell at all.  It is just their opinion that it won't sell enough to be worth keeping.

I see this being true for sites like DT and IS, but not SS. SS will actually lose money if a single picture is downloaded many times, cause they have to pay out royalties. I wonder if they have a different criteria, something like trying to judge the "appeal" and "usefulness" of a picture to its customer base. SS is a very strange business model indeed.

Just had my first EL on SS. *jumping happily around*

Well in theory, yes I think this does have some validity to it.. But this poses the argument that designers and others actually strictly follow the guidelines with RF licenses.. Really I being a designer and knowing lots of others, whether they buy from micro or other places, RF is pretty much free reign of usage.. I really doubt that many designers even read the licenses.. So like I said it's kinda a valid argument if you believe that everyone follows the rules.. I'm not really saying that anybody putting up micro on Alamy should be shot   or anything like that.. Really I'm just saying think about how your actions will affect yours and others future.. I personally like being able to choose to send some images to Macro and others to Micro.. I'd like to think there is a future for both, but we as a photography community need to watch out and care for our outlets for distributing.. If we all load up Alamy with Micro images what do you think it will become? Micro?

I totally see your point and I agree with it. Overloading Alamy with micro is a Bad Thing (tm).
Another argument: only uploading a version of some micro best sellers to offer them to a wider public with a wider licence, hence a "better" product in terms of what you can do it with it?

Since I'm new, I'm just trying to understand all the possible combinations, don't shoot me yet

Sony A200. My first and current camera.
If I ever get good at this, one day, I'll like to get a Nikon D700 or a Sony A900.

My huge problem with Fotolia is that I'm not learning anything from their rejections. They accepted an image with purple fringing (ooooooops, sorry for that, totally missed it in that image of the series) and they rejected for quality of the photograph an entire series that was accepted everywhere else. They just didn't need that subject, fair enough, don't be shy, tell me.

I never complain about rejections, it's always my fault, but please tell me why it was rejected. That helps me more than random rejections with random reasons.

I'm not sure about the conclusions you make about Romania not being nice and advanced as the rest of Europe, unfortunately I still haven't had a chance to go, but it does pay to keep in mind that people communicate from a different cultural background - what is seen as direct but perfectly normal by some cultures is perceived as rude or offensive in others.

This is so very true. I'm italian, living in UK. What for me is just a joke or simply a direct and honest opinion is seen by the average english as a kind of insult. For them being shady and closed is normal, for me is simply dishonesty.
I love different cultures, just have to get used to it

I had my second payout this month (from DT) so I can finally contribute to these polls.
As a newbie, I have about 200 images online across various agencies, I made >100$ this month in total. My RPI is slightly more than 0.5. About six months into this.

SS 55.3% (RPI 0.35)
DT 26.1% (RPI 0.15)
IS  6.3% (RPI 0.07)

Hope this data can help people starting out like me to get a better idea of what they can expect.

I sold my first one today ($1.88). About 190 images online.