Taking Stock: Make money in microstock creating photos that sell

9. Avoiding Rejection

Anyone submitting work to a stock site has felt the sting of rejection. No one likes it. It can be both a source of frustration and a learning opportunity, so don’t let it get you down. I wrote this chapter to help you learn how to avoid it (or at least reduce its frequency) in the first place. Up until this point in the workflow, we have focused on setting up to create the best capture in camera, then to do the least harm to get the best results doing your basic raw processing. In this chapter, I want to focus on specific tips to deal with real-world situations that simply require digital intervention, follow up with some advice about not going too far in your editing efforts, and leave you with a couple of low-key enhancement ...