All I know is that I am officially 'over' Fotolia.  I'm slowing deleting my entire portfolio, and will be sending them an email or calling them to close my account.  The FTP issue has been going on for over a couple of months with me, on top of mass rejections.  I can handle rejection, don't get me wrong.  It's just that mass rejections have started and have stayed consistent with me, and it's just not worth the time, (and headache) to upload, edit my IPTC data, just to have them rejected in one swoop.  It feels like at times, they don't even look at my work.  And yes, I'm going to throw the common, but goodie line lol...my stuff does great at other sites.

It irks me because I really like Fotolia.  If they have changed their policies with illustrations and fractal art, if they aren't accepting them, they need to simply come out and say. 

Crestock is doing great and the management really knows what they are doing. All of us have seen so many versions of microstock agencies trying to be successful, but very few have as sleek and well featured interface as Crestock. If they continue like they are doing now, they are bound to be successful.

I�m investing all my pictures in them, mostly because of future prospects of income, but I actually made over 700 USD from them in the month of January 2008.

Yeah, well...with your billions of great shots I can see why lmao     I'm investing my pictures there too.  I've made some sales, and I love that they are so easy to upload to.  One of my easiest sites, as long as my meta data is correct...don't have to edit a thing.

Have you tried posting on the SS forums? Maybe somebody else that uploads fractals can help you.  The words all seem fine to me.
Good luck

I figured it out.  I have been 'too descriptive'.  They use like a picture of a family as an example.  You wouldn't have dog and tree as a keyword just because there is a dog and tree in the background running rampant behind the focus of the image...the family.  That was my eureka moment.  I spent as much time describing 'every' detail of the fractal.  Which kind of puts me in a pinch because I have made plenty of sales on DT using my regular method. 

   I've been submitting to SS for almost a year.  I do fractal art.  This is my gallery:  http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery.mhtml?id=94247

The past three submissions have been rejected due to keywording.  I always check the Illustration box, and pick Illustrations as my first category, so I know that isn't it.  I also know, understandably, that they are really cracking down because of keyword spamming.

What I want to know is what is descriptive.  I don't use words such as 'flyer', 'advertisement' and such as I have seen in quite a few of the fractal images.  I hate even going into concepts, because everyone always sees something different where fractal art is concerned.

I'm not going to post the picture, but I have a fractal heart that split into twin spirals, making for a very elegant, and nifty heart.  These are the keywords I am using, some of which I used when I resubmitted after the first mass rejection, just to be met with another rejection lol.

abstract, fractal, illustration, digital, art, design, background, dark, red, maroon, shade, color, pattern, spiral, curl, coil, twist, twirl, heart, shape, flow, curve, layer, fan, form, contrast,  smooth, texture, dynamic, surreal, detail, Valentine, day, illusion, move, motion,  movement

All of these words, other than Valentine's day, 'describe' what is in the image.  The heart is layered, so there is a fanning effect to it, in layered fashion.  I didn't even use "background" as a keyword.  Is there someone here that can help?  I've heard some mention limiting your keywords down to 10, which leaves not a lot of room to 'describe' an image.  I'm ok with that, but that leads to a question.  Do I just wittle it down to bare bones for SS, and then submit my normal amount of keywords to the other sites?  Is anyone having to deal with this, in that I want to know do you use the same keywords for all sites?

Here is a link to another image, a style which I like doing, very 'thready'.

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-9213211-blue-flowing-and-curving-thread-textures-computer-generated-fractal-abstract-background.html

The keywords under it are what I just edited them to, today.  It was already submitted some time ago before the rejections started.

Please, any help would be so appreciated.

I submitted some images there about a week ago, and they are still in the pending approval stage.  Does anyone have a time frame of how long it takes initially to be approved?