Do you have safe search on?  Or some other filter?

Just for everyone's information, people have started multiple resubmissions to SS because their review process has become seriously flawed.

Their sales are still good enough that contributors are still willing to make the effort, but I don't know how long that will last.

This particular image, though, I think isn't quite good enough to be worth the effort.  Just not *quite* sharp focus, not *quite* good exposure. 

I don't blame you for not believing the SS reviewers, though.

It's based on Fotolia's  model.

With this easy entry, many new submitters will wind up with very small portfolios.  Even with the reduced minimum payout, this will mean long periods of Shutterstock getting to keep the royalties for a long time.

Let's face it, punters who can only get one out of 10 will be thrilled to have a few puny sales.  "Look, I'm a professional now!"

Someone ought to update istock's wikipedia page, to include its recent history.

Anyone feel up to that?

No.

That doesn't keep people from doing it, of course.

Shutterstock was my first stock site (many years ago now, wow...) and I have always been happy with them.   The upload system is easy to use, and payments are always on time.  There's a forum where people new to the site can get critique from other photographers on their images before submitting their application, which is really useful.

I've been selling at FT for a while, and they are incredibly picky.  I get more rejections there than anywhere.  They have a particular "style" they like, and anything else has to be just incredible to get in.  They have plenty of images, and are trying to only add new ones very slowly.

Anything involving "innovative".

It's like a job interview.  Show them your very best, and give them a good idea of what you can do.  Stay fairly close to your main style, so that you aren't misrepresenting yourself, but otherwise, show off as much as you can.   There's a forum for discussion, and you can get critiques from other contributors in the Illustration section, before you submit, if you like.

HI, another new to the forum, but not to selling art and photography.

I think the best way to introduce myself is simply to show you these comics I did about growing up artistic, among the unimaginative.

http://unseengallery.com/html/pervert_s_progress.html

If, as you said in your very first post in this thread, you submitted something that had someone else's watermark on it, you were just plain stupid.

There is no reason whatsoever for that other person's work to have been in your vector in the first place.   There are plenty of ways to use a photo for inspiration without importing it.  The best way though, is to USE YOUR OWN PHOTO or YOUR OWN SKETCH from a photo. 

I have trouble believing it was "just an accident", but even if it was, I don't see how you could have missed the raster in your eps when you did a final check before submitting.

I don't know what you think the people here can do for you, you screwed up and suffered the consequences.  If I did something that dumb, I would expect the same results.  And, I wouldn't whine about it being unfair, because it's not.

I'll be keeping an eye out for your work, in case you get "inspired" by some of my work.