I have a strong feeling that "out of focus" is the first item in the dropdown list...

Yes... Please, Photodune, upgrade your upload system.

As it works now, I made years ago a similar upload system, based on tutorials, when I was learning php.

Multiple files upload at once and a separate MR management and -attach system is a minimum today. Why is so difficult to understand this?

Since PD was announced I've been waiting to upgrade the upload system. I don't want to select, rename and arrange my photos and mr's all day long only to adapt to current upload system. Computer software should work as needed, not humans must adapt to a (basic) system.
It was promised in one thread that you will upgrade... Since then 6 months has passed...

That's another unfinished site. PM thinks we read their mind...
Don't waste your nerves. If you consider good the photo, upload it again, maybe some other inspector will like it. If not, forget the whole thing, since their upload system is unnecessarily complicated...

Rejection reasons of big agencies become a puzzle to solve. Since they have several reasons to use, the editor simply picks the most appropriate.
In the majority of the cases, poor lighting is translated as: "I don't like this image" or "The overall look of the image is too poor". They simply can't write this there, because sounds ugly.

Looking at your example, I found too cropped. Also the filter part of the cigarettes looks extremely short. Regardless of the fact that the filter continues in white, it simply gives the whole image an unpleasant look.

The best answer to this would be like this: please take a fresh look at your image after a weekend/holiday/another-non-photographic-activity and you may see the real image, not the image you wanted to make.
Looking back in my portfolio, well, I have a LOT of images that look different compared to what I wanted... Those images had a lot of rejections at different agencies.

If you upload your images months after it was submitted to the first agency and it was also sold several times, you may be angry on stupid rejections. Somehow, some editors have a very good sense to reject exactly those images that sell best. Of course, in the same batch they accept all the crap. Generally speaking...

I started to fight against this heroturko-like sites years ago.
The whole thing is based on the file sharing sites offer. Thus, if you upload a file, it's online some time, then it's deleted. But if downloaded, remains on the server more time. The most important part is that these sites (rapidshare, hotfile, etc.) are asking money to use their service (to download files). So who uploads the files receives a few amount of money. To maintain the downloads, the content of the files are advertised on this heroturko-like sites.
To remove the content, you must complain to rapidshare, hotfile, etc. They don't say anything, they simply remove the files (archives).
To solve the problem, the one who shares the files uploads again the archive(s), in the comments posts the new links and that's it.

The problem is that file sharing sites doesn't care what's inside a shared file. They don't terminate accounts if something illegal is shared.

If you have experience, please share, how are agencies accepting these character sets made of leaves, flowers, colorful beads, etc...
I know only about SS and DT. As I saw, SS accepts standalone characters, and DT likes only groups (based on some forum discussion, years ago), however, I browsed the newest images @DT and I saw standalone characters.
How complex must be one letter to go standalone?
It is better to group 2-3 characters together?
What are the rules at the agencies (= how they accept characters? (Standalone, in 3-6pcs/image or whole set)

Thank you!

Wow really? I can copy anyone's work, change it one pixel in any direction, and now it's my derivative? Sounds a little risky to me and kind of unethical?

In this case you shouldn't use any 16x16 or 32x32px cursors or other icons. Anybody can find easily any similarity, even if you had completely redrawn the image.

Interesting question. To short the things, you may want to shorten/enlarge the graphic by 1 pixel in any direction. The result will be automatically something else.
Comparing pixel-by-pixel an image and finding similar, means, by default, derivative work. Regardless who owns the copyright of the original image (except author died 70 years ago (in several countries 80 or 90)).
For those, vectorized and enlarged images of pixels, it depends. If Bill Gates is complaining, you've lost. If me, you may win... (But don't wait too much!)

In the reality I prefer to derivate work from something free/open source and forget the commercial resources...

It's amazing with 200x200px resolution. I'm really excited to see what produces with 20mpx images. I hope, after de-blur, if I downsize the 20mpx image to 6-8, it will be completely usable...

Thank you for the input! I really appreciate. I think, many people will do also...
I've understood the most important part, so I will not consider uploading the same images as I do for microstock.

When everything seems to be going well, @ SF there is a problem with the illustrations, especially with objects that has "Screen" blending mode: Preview file is not the same as in EPS which may mislead a client. (...)
To figure out what does this mean, I contacted the given e-mail and the response (I will not copy paste here because it isn't nice) told me that temporarily I should switch the document color mode into CMYK to check the document how it's looking. I was screaming and running up-down for 5 minutes then sitting down to figure out the proper response to this.
Intro: if you are familiar with the RGB-CMYK thing... Switching from RGB there is an another parameter coming in the game, so it's only a "figure-out" game, given by an icc profile. If the illustration contains complex blend modes, this is supposed to be rendered in the color space wit was designed. When switching the color space, the entire color set must be reworked. Sorry.
I was making this 6 years when preparing graphics for screen printing. No ICC profile on the world can handle RGB-CMYK conversion as the given technology wants (Screen, Flexo, Offset, etc.)

First at all, we are talking about this illustration:
ttp://www.dreamstime.com/sun-and-moon-in-yin-yang-symbol-image21532090
The moon is made of 3 objects that has "Screen" blend, 2 of them is going from pure black to a gray so this way the glow is made. When somebody converts the illustration into CMYK, the pure black is rendered as a dark gray (because in real printing there is no pure black so the ICC profile that converts the colors simulates this) so our "Screen" blend is rendered very ugly.
At SF, it's a part of the reviewing process to convert the document into CMYK and check what happens... (I'm running up-down again and screaming)
In short...
RGB illustrations should be verified in RGB mode, CMYK illustrations in CMYK mode!!!!! Any RGB-CMYK or CMYK-RGB conversion is LOSSY, there is a distortion of color data. Don't confuse photos with illustrations! Illustrations contain layers with specific blending modes. Converting the colors before FLATTENING the illustration results in a total mess...
I guess, this reviewing method was well going with EPS v8, where blending modes weren't working.

I prepared an answer but I'm afraid it's too long. Somebody pls. help me to answer in 2-3 phrases... It's just too much theory involved...

I'm supporting SF from the first time and I will continue to do so. StockXpert was one of my favorite agency. Simple, clean and well-going.
I know that we can't expect much sales at this time. But if more of us would support the site with images, sales would come much earlier.
I know, SF isn't like SS, upload today and earn tomorrow. But consider uploading because it offers 50% and the owner has experience in industry.

Those who aren't contributing:
Pros:
- 50% revenue
- the fastest upload speed in the industry (up to 1Mbps)
- fastest submitting process
- fastest and consistent reviews

Cons:
- slow sales for now
- 20mb limit of eps file size
- keywords not editable after approval

BTW congratulations for the 1M milestone!

hate to be harsh but are you wanting a critique or not?  it sounds more like you are venting and if you don't like the percentage you are getting at IS then why are you even bothering?  I understand the frustration but when you add "it doesn't worth the time" then I question why are bothering with them?  There are plenty of other agencies to to sell your work.  If IS has you upset then simply stop contributing to them and concentrate on the agencies that accept your work and you make more money. 

I understand your point but I'm not just black&white. Little money (percent) is infinitely more than nothing. Since I'm a full time contributor, everything counts. Of course, there's a line under what I can't contribute anymore. Yes the percent is the lowest, but there's a strong point I'm still contributing to IS: the amount of sales. Even if they pay the lowest percent, the total sum at the end of the month is greater that at some given agencies that offer ~30...50%. When this income will drop under a certain amount, sure I will not contribute anymore.