In a weird turn of events...after having my images (2) on shutterstock (and being rejected) I have had one download in 3 days...so in terms of being rejected yet getting a download, its pretty fast for me

ahahha...i hate irony 

Well its good to hear you guys are doing well, because I'm gonna rack up a tonne of images and then i'm gonna bombard them in three months 

Good luck and hopefully it keeps up strong

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that I made a sale on Dreamstime today.  It was for $0.50 which is alright I guess - is that because they used the old credits?

Anywho, I'm really excited since I only have 9 pics up and from what you guys are saying, that is pretty good

Hopefully I can bring some more downloads

Have a good one

True, I guess

So you would recommend from your experiences that other sites will increase income more than the amount made from exclusivity from one?  I have about 40 images right now, 35 of which have been accepted to Fotolia, 10 of which are on Dreamstime (I have background removal issues) and such and one copyright problem (although it was accepted at other places).

I have about 20 images needing to be processed.  I have 512 MB of RAM coming to me this week or so which will increase my post-processing speed and hopefully I can get up to 200 images on most sites within a good time period. 

Hopefully I can see steady downloads because I really want to generate some income to buy more lenses and a bigger card/pay for the camera.

Any other recommendations?  Anyone see a pickup in any previously slower sites?

And what type of photos do sell really well?

Its the fact that they think they are superior I guess.  Hopefully another agency comes along and knocks them on their a$$....but I just hope that those photographers that make money from them don't suffer as a result....

I think I might try exclusiveness at Dreamstime.  They pay 20 cents for a photo if you are exclusive.  Thats decent income to pay for my new stuff

Apparently its cool to reject me at Shuttestock based on 4 or 5 images.  I emailed them and asked them to reverse the decision so that I can upload 10 pictures and be judged like everyone else, but it is probably to no avail.  Hopefully they aren't anal about this considering I removed my pictures so that I can put better ones on.

2 of them did make it on, but I don't want to wait 3 months for that.  Thats pretty ridiculous especially since I didn't even have my 10 up yet.

Thanks I will try that

I might need some more guidance..hopefully I'm not dense and I can do it 

Sounds like a good plan then.

Anyone have any good tips on how to remove backgrounds..advanced though, on Photoshop CS2

Yes I am using a Digital Rebel XT.  I try to keep the ISO at 100, its native ISO.

Isn't it the case with most, as in 80% of cameras available (or more) that they are noise prone at night or in blue sky situations?

I NoiseNinja everything.  You think thats good enough?

Just submitted my ten to Shutterstock.  I hope they get by.  I'd just like to thank everyone who's helped me along so far, especially leaf and striker77s.  Thanks a lot for giving me advice on this stuff.

I really hope I'm not rejected from them too, because I'm already feeling a bit dejected from the StockXpert rejection.

I really enjoy this kind of stuff, but it seems that maybe I'm entering too late or something.  I don't want to sound pitiful so I'm going to stop and hopefully Shutterstock will make me smile

Thanks again to all those who offered their advice so far.  I really appreciate it.

As well, is their approval based on technical aspects of the reviewer's preference of what they want to accept?  I hate getting the response we're not looking for these photos at this time - its a real pain because StockXpert did that to me but they only give you so many options and I have so many photos I can't put in.  Its a lose-lose if you guess wrong.  Being new at this, I have lost many times so far.