Or submit somewhere else. Some of my best selling images as SS were rejected by IS and vice versa. Each has it's own market -- a rejection is not necessarily a comment on the innate quality of your work, but it's suitability to that particular market.

If the goal is to sell images (vs. please a particular inspector) then I say submit broadly and shrug off the occasional rejection.

And to your original question "Can inspections become more inane?" I'm going to guess "yes?" was I correct?

Not every notice contains a clue of how to correct an image. I've received the "over-filtered" notice on files that were strait out of the camera, for example an image on a brightly colored background -- which I got accepted by filtering it to be less saturated.

My advice on getting rejections reversed is pretty simple: don't rely on the rejection comment to tell you everything to do; look at the image and ask yourself how you could improve it -- make it something people want to buy.

And also remember that there are other sites that are not only easier to gain acceptance on, but that will likely earn you more money.

Hope my 2 cents helps.

This may help. Here is what I do: I pick several images that are of a similar subject, thus having similar keywords... perhaps a batch of 10

Then I create a word processing document with a list of all 10 images, titles, keywords, etc.

Then I upload these to multiple sites... no additional typing required, just copy and paste. Sites like SX allow batch editing to make this process even more efficient.

Slap my wrist if this is the wrong forum for this question.

Does anyone here use Genuine Fractals? Any opinion on using it for stock?

I know at least one (Shutterstock) does upsampling -- but wouldn't it be best to let the customer do this? I'm intrigued but skeptical...

http://www.ononesoftware.com/detail.php?prodLine_id=2

Note: I have nothing to do with the company that produces the product, inserting the link for reference purposes..

Anyone heard of photostockplus.com ?  They seem to have a good rate for referring new photographers (oops, maybe I let the cat out of the bag before I signed up for comissions) but I wanted to see if anyone here has heard of them.

My theory: Long queues = hire more inspectors;
hire more inspectors = inspectors must be trained.

I run a (different type of) site that has an approval process for it's membership. The first reaction of most inspectors is to reject about 50%, where on my site the real goal is about 5% -- after a few nudges they learn...

I can only assume that microstock sites have a review process for their inspectors, and that as decisions are reversed the training takes place.

Has anyone been able to find Fotolia's privacy policy?

It is linked from http://us.fotolia.com/Info/Security

http://www.fotolia.com/info/privacy_policy.php

But that is a broken link. I asked them about it, and they responded:

Answers: Fotolia : We are not sure we understand your request. Please describe in more detail how can we assist you.
 

...The amount of money they make from us, they should employ someone just to stop these sites stealing images.

Istock implies that they will fight legal battles for exclusive photographers to protect the images. I can't get you the exact link & quote since IS is offline for maintenance.

It seems to me that some sites are more profitable depending on the  photographer/portfolio. For me IS has been the best, but not the true for others... Probably has to do with how many people are shooting the same stuff as you... too few and the site won't get many buyers of that type, and too many and you've got too much competition -- thus the strategy of spreading out over a few sites..

I'm glad to see some people making more serious money at this. I've only been at it a short while... I'm more interested in seeing $/image (must be the M.B.A. in me) than totals; to get a comparison that is less dependant on number of images or age of portfolio.

Yes, I read Bjorn's site before buying each of my lenses. What I've learned most is that every lens has a limit of some sort. At first I bought into the hype that zooms were getting sharper; a year ago I would never use any zoom, and I may go back to that -- but then maybe if I spend a few thousand more it will get better

I'm currently getting acceptance notices (and rejections) for images submitted on 9/8... so about 13 days for me. They seem to fall behind and catch up periodically -- I guess the hardest thing for them to predict is how many images people will submit on any given day.