I joined and uploaded a group of 19 photos.  The upload went smoothly, but of course I first had to put the photos in a zipped file.  I'll probably wait for the FTP functionality before uploading more.

The photos were listed under "unpublished items," and I assume they'll be published after inspection.  Am I correct?

There is only a place holder where the preview image should be.

Overall, I like the site, I like the concept, and I think the idea of making stock photos available on such a template site makes good business sense.  I applaud and appreciate the time, talent, effort, and venture capital that you've invested in your project, and I hope it succeeds beyond your wildest expectations.   

Although the inspection process could use some adjustments, IMHO, I get more action in a day on the images that get approved than I get on other sites in a month.  The flip side of that coin is that with 33 cents per download (as a general rule), I need a lot more activity to translate that activity into decent $$.  For instance, I've got 34 downloads so far this month, and only $17.  That's just wrong!  But that's just the reality, so hi ho, hi ho, it's off to shoot I go...   

It seems that many contributors have fogotten that money isn�t going to be what makes you all happy.

True.  But the lack of it will certainly make me unhappy!  (Not to mention hungry!)

Too much work for too little.  I'm out.

I uploaded 45 files on July 1.  All but one were inspected a short while ago (today is August 3).  Prior to that, I had ten files in my Veer catalog, and much to my surprise, got two sales.  That's very unusual in my experience - two sales with only ten images.  I can't help but wonder if that's a fluke or if it's a sign of good things to come.  But a month-long review time is a bit hard to work with.   

This photo was rejected at SS ("Poor Lighting--Poor or uneven lighting, or shadows. White balance may be incorrect."):



But I add a simple graphic to the same photo, without any additional modification whatsoever, and it gets approved (submitted in the same batch):



It sold within hours.  On DT, however, both are rejected, with the usual list of possible reasons (pick a reason, any reason...).  I had to chuckle...  

I disagree with those who don't see any commercial value in the batch.  I see commercial value in all of them.  We can never predict what kind of project a graphic designer will be asked to work on, or what kind of photograph the designer will need.  So when one of the sites rejects a photo for LCV, it always makes me chuckle because we've left the realm of the objective and quantifiable technical realm and entered the realm of the completely subjective, which can be subject to the whims and moods of the inspector.  For example, I once shot a model in a long, flowing dress underwater.  She wasn't doing anything - just enjoying the water with slow, deliberate motion.  We had no clue what it might be used for, but we liked the idea and the resulting footage.  Lo and behold, it got picked up for use in a music video.  That's not something that anyone could have predicted.  Thus, it seems to me a good idea to avoid the subjective and opinion on the part of inspectors, and stick to the technical.

That said, there are a few that I don't think I would lead with for my first ten.  Others I would, like the black-and-white one.  I think the streaked traffic has been done so much that it's cliche.  It too me eight submissions to SS before I got accepted, and it seemed like a moving target.  Two of those submissions were all photos that had passed inspection in previous batches.  But I finally made it, and I'm seeing daily sales.  Sometimes, though, I still think I get an inspector whose girlfriend broke up with him the night before.   

I use PSM to input the data, but it has too many problems with uploading, so I use FTP, and the data transfers with it.  However, in any batch there are always a few for which the data doesn't transfer.  It's always the same photos from site to site.  The data is there, but it doesn't transfer.  I don't know if the problems are with the sites or with PSM.

DT sales for me are only occasional.  I get a lot more activity at SS.

like I said before do isolations and people, I have amost 100% in.. they have ton but hell they want more so we do it 

The vast majority of what I shoot is people (models), and my first mass rejection was a series with one beautiful young woman (most of which were accepted on other sites).  It was followed by a series of editorial shots of the media circus across from the Orange County courthouse in Orlando, almost all of which was accepted.  I don't think we'll ever figure out what they want because it seems to be a moving target.  Even so, SS is still the best-selling and best-performing site for me.

An extended license would allow such use of stock images, would it not?

When I look at Media Files -> Overview, I see only one rejected file.  The rest are approved.  The total is 550 files.  However, the statistics to the right indicates a total of 651 files, 549 of which were approved.  So the system is accurately subtracting the one rejected file from the 550 listed under the overview, but 101 files are unaccounted for (651-550=101).  If memory serves me correctly, they were rejected, so it would seem that the system is in need of some reprogramming.  In fact, I ceased uploading to CC because of the last round of rejections, and because of zero sales since I began to upload in March of last year.

I recently had an entire batch rejected, which was a first for me on SS.  Right behind that was a batch of editorial shots, most of which were accepted.