I always zoom in on my photos. If it's not quite sharp at 200%, I know I could have a problem.
Landscape photos without a foreground, where the foliage of trees is not sharp, is a problem.
Before shooting for Shutterstock, I thought I took nice photos, but almost all of them would be disapproved for sharpness.
Sometimes the question is whether that sharpness is necessary for certain photos, but that is the rule at Shutterstock.
Photos that are on the border are sometimes approved and rejected the other time. And sometimes, of course, photos completely unjustly rejected.
On the shutterstock forum. the rejected photos were often shown. Often it turned out to be justified according to the Shutterstock rules.
I found that educational. I rarely see pictures here. Just complaining doesn't help, of course.

I think a lot of the time people are shooting in camera jpeg photos only & not Raw then converting to jpg. on a RAW editor program. My brother who was a full time pro in the film era realised early on when he first started in stock photography (on Alamy, he won't do microstock) that his jpeg camera images weren't sharp enough so shot in RAW from then on

Quote from: cascoly on December 18, 2021, 14:34

both, but 99% images.
there's a breakdown in the 'earnings summary' for 'cart sales'

Then you take the image sales and subtract the video sales out yourself, manually?....

how hard is it to subtract 1 number from the total?