Thought this may interest you. This stock photography survey was published by GD USA, a graphic design magazine I get every month.

http://www.gdusa.com/issue_2006/09_sept/survey/

I've been looking at my portfolio, and all my "large" photos are also significantly smaller than what I uploaded.  I'm not sure how I feel about it.  On the one hand, I worked hard to create these (pitiful) images to be clean at 6.3 megapixels.  On the other hand, do designers need an image that large?

Any designers want to answer for us?

I always prefer the biggest image I can get unless I know it's for web-only or if there are budget concerns. Mainly it's about flexibility. You can always downsize an image without loss of quality, but never upsample. I'm glad to hear that LO will be including XL and XXL files up in the future.

Yeah, I'd be complaining about their lousy 30% commission instead. I mean, sites such as StockXpert and Dreamstime are offering 50% with many more sales. Why would I possibly want LO to succeed. So they can take business away from DT and SX and pay me less.

It's someone like FeaturePics that I really hopes makes it.

See, now I find that a legitimate complaint.

I guess where I'm confused is that the tokens aren't meant as rewards but are gifts - but everyone is complaining how it's not good enough gift. If I gave a gift to someone and they turned around and complained it wasn't expensive enough - or wasn't good enough, I would be insulted. LuckyOliver doesn't have to give you jacksquat for uploading images - but they do it as a gesture of goodwill. I guess, in my opinion, to complain about getting something for free is like looking a gift horse in the mouth.

Okay, I have to put my two cents in. I am primarily a designer and I do photography as well on the side. I signed up with LuckyOliver because I thought it was potentially, an interesting site for a source of stock photography and to try my hand at submitting some photos. I am not disappointed by the fact you can't convert tokens to money. I see it as a gift, a thank you. You didn't earn it - they gave it to you for free. It's like people complaining that McDonald's won't give you money if you tried to return the toy they got free with a Happy Meal. Sure they may be useless to some strictly photographers - but are they any worse off if they weren't given tokens? Heck, if you load up enough photos - you could buy out someone's exclusive rights photo and resubmit to LuckyOliver and add it to your portfolio! Another perspective to this idea is that it is also rewarding people who are using the site other than uploading photos. I am a designer - I do use this site to download photos that I need for jobs. It's nice that Bryan and Co. recognize people who do submit material and who also download material by giving these tokens. By fostering that relationship you will get long-term loyalty from designers such as myself which is going to eventually benefit you, the photographers.