Oh, I didn't go on holiday in the hope I would earn the money for the holiday back. That wasn't about the money I spent for the holiday. I have the feeling that my husband had a holiday and knows so many things I simply didn't hear because I was so busy to take photos for microstock. He had a holiday while I had microstock in my head. I spent a lot on props for food photography which I needed only for microstock and didn't have and for christmas things I wouldn't have bought for myself. But most money I spent for food photography and they are my worst selling images. I am not talking about money spent on food. That I am eating. Just the props like knives, peelers.......Last year I bought Christmas decoration and I just about got the money back that I had paid for it but I didn't earn any money. Editing, keywording and uploading is far too time consuming to consider this a hobby.

I have made the opposite experience. My unedited images sell better where I have not increased saturation. DT once wrote to me and told me not to edit them so that the buyer can edit the images to their liking. I think you're doing very well.

I agree with you, it's all for nothing. However, I don't have that many images yet and I am certainly not selling well on Fotolia. I did at the beginning when I started but after 8 months they seem to have forgotten that I do exist. You are sick of getting 38 cents? What about the 2 cents you get from iStock? I got for several images just 2 cents.

I had 500 images with them and no sale for one year. I closed my account. Not worth my time.

I thought they might like it natural but I am not sure because they seem to buy my over the top edited images which I don't like. I always think that something like that doesn't exist in nature. Not that I want to leave images flat and boring but not that saturated.

Can it be used to upload to Alamy Live News?

I can change the aspect ratio setting on my camera. I just wondered if customers prefer 4:3 instead of 3:2. So far I took images with 3:2 but then I read on the internet that for stock photography agencies I should use 4:3 and I can set my camera to 4:3. I do have enough MP.

That is interesting. I didn't even know that matters. I looked it up and it's 3:2. I had written to Fotolia and they replied that I should take images with 16:9 aspect ratio. I was astonished about that. I don't mind doing that for landscape images but I never got the idea to do my table top images in 16:9.

Hello, I am just wondering if there is a certain aspect ratio agencies and or the customers prefer for images. I can set my camera to 4:3 or 3:2. So far I have been taking images in 3:2 but I also crop according to my image even if it changes the aspect ration. Is that okay?

Shocking awful so far.

That would be great. I was invited to work for them but haven't opened an account yet. What happens if they choose no images at all? Do I have to pay for props I need to buy and then end up getting no money if no images get accepted? 40 images.....that's an awful amount of images to edit if none get accepted.

Affinity Photo. However I don't like their RAW converter. For everything else it is great.

I wrote to customer service and they replied that the model release form itself is fine but maybe it's because there is some scribble....Then I filled out a new form. Image rejected again for model release. Wrote to customer service again. They again wrote that model release form is fine. They didn't even know what to write. They wrote maybe photo on release is not clear. I now printed SS releases for future images.