For tagging, uploading and acceptance details I have been using prostockmaster which seems excellent but I am too new to offer any real opinion, it supports the top four agencies and a few of the others.

done

I'm not going to use it as such...just thought i might as well spend 'em.

cool, anyone with very few downloads want them ?

I have 10 free credits that are due to expire that were creditited when i signed up for Veer.

If I use them does the contributor get paid?

thnaks for the tips 

Again, Thank you.

Can anyone give an opinion on the extra functionality gained by PS Elements over Gimp 2. Gimp + UF Raw (which are free) seems to have all the functionality I need but I am still learning how to enhance my pictures.

I take on board the "dark" comments. To my eye they seem ok, wonder if its my monitor ?

hmm, very interesting!

I am using gimp rather than photoshop ( feeling virtuos after reading the piracy thread;) ) but I suppose i could have tried something similar, I've never had PS and certainly can't afford it atm and don't want to go down the torrents route.

I didn't wait or get any closer as he was starting to get rather fidgety and there was no fence between us 

Thanks for the feedback.

I have had one failure at alamy and istock, haven't dared to try shutterstock yet

QuoteI use a lot of cow shots for companies selling ear tags

That's good info thanks. Half of my grand total of 7 sales are pics of cows. I hadn't worked out who was buying them, this just shows you have to think outside the box and there are markets that aren't immediately obvious.

Hi,

I am a complete newcomer to photography having picked up my first dslr on fleabay a couple of months ago.
I am having a bash at stock photography as a way of trying to learn and have been uploading to some of the sites with limited success, at the moment I am really enjoying just trying to get pics accepted, the handfull of sales are a bonus.

My dreamstime pics are http://www.dreamstime.com/resp2709173-free-images 

and fotolia http://en.fotolia.com/p/202044759

Any observations are more than welcome.

This one http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14783063/cow6.jpg was turned down at crestock for Artifacts and/or Compression flaws. I can't for the life of me see what they mean!