Everywhere I read about people getting EL's. I'm around since December on 6 sites with 300-500 pictures and I haven't had any.

I'm just curious about you people, do you get often EL's, is it the same on all sites or are you also waiting for your first one?

i'm also waiting for my first one... i sometimes wonder if i ever going to sell one. at SS i don't even have found where is it shown, where is it?

just have to wait, i suppose 

Just a note however, they have knocked a lot back after using the noise software, so i dont use it anymore and have had much better luck.

i had to learn it the hard way, but now have no rejections for noise reason.
ninja noise is not easy to use... it could generate artifacts, so be careful. i use ninja the same way sharply_done does, and also use the blur tool on dark and out of focus areas (that way i get rid of noise and artifacts at the same time).
hope this help you, litifeta

Luc�a

Somehow I allmost never have rejection because of noise anymore, my good old D60  , however, weired things are happening to me, probably coincidence. If I submit one image at a time, which I have a done a lot the last months, it allmost never gets rejected, when I upload more, most times I have a really high rejection rate.
Yesterday 10 out of 10 were rejected!
Today 1 out of 1 was accepted.
Maybe they have pity on me, when I have only time to upload one image..
I guess in future I will go one by one...

i noticed in my case, that they reject all, or accept all... no matter how many there are in the bunch. obviusly, if you upload 1 you just risk 1.

Luc�a

as a designer, sometimes i have to search very specific images and istock is the best place for 2 reasons: the search engine and the variety. on SS, DT and StockXpert are all the same images we upload, but istock have the exclusive ones...

Thank you! 

Quote from: hatman12 on March 11, 2007, 07:30

I'm English but now live in Australia.  BUT I do LOVE pizza.  Do I qualify?

gh! ahahah!  if you can say 2 or 3 random italian words.. well, yes!

i'm uruguayan living in uruguay. i also LOVE pizza and know how to make it! and also can say: azzurro, io sono, tu sei, lui e, voi siete, loro sono... or something like that.

luc�a

Quote from: tsmarkley on March 15, 2007, 10:26

I got to say that I have enjoyed looking at the new photo's on the CN tab. I usually go the tab for new photos for cn members. There is some great work coming through.

I feel the same

feel the same too... and feel very grateful for all the new ratings!

thank you all! 

roman, if you want to be exclusive to istock, you have to know that at DT 'all Contributors are required to keep at least seventy (70%) percent of their portfolio online with Dreamstime.com for a period of at least six (6) months.'

Don't you embed the keywords into your image as EXIF data?  that would automatically put your keywords & description into iStock, then you just have to do catagories

I can't understand why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt! 

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I stoped uploading to StockXpert months ago... they are unnecessary rude with their rejections and for me, no sales. So, why take the time uploading to a site that doesn't take the time to talk respectfully about my work and doesn't sell it?

Just my opinion, StockXpert!  Wake up!

I'm just starting and do the same on both IS and SS. I started uploading on IS and it was very slowly, with 71 images on line last month i made $30... i'm not very active, but i think is too slow...
I started with SS 02-19-2007 and 15 days after i made $29 with 50 images on line. Plus, on SS almost all my images sell and on IS i have one hit with 85 dls and the others hardly ever sell.
I owe IS the quality of my images, i learned a LOT there and still learning, they are relly helpfull on the forums... but SS wins when it comes to $$$, i get to shot what i want and it sells... so... learning to love SS