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Excellent idea. Maybe the inspector might also select the portion of the image that he think is better and propose it to the author, or just put the selection online as a new image?

Great idea - more choices for potential clients, and more possibilities for sales by the photographer - win/win.

Awesome feature!

Actually this kind of thing does happen on at least one other site that I know of. It's a nice idea, and may help build up the stock here in a better way. If customers have such few choices in some categories, I worry that they will turn to other sites. I too have been very baffled by the extremely high rejection rate, and have a hard time seeing what is unique about the types of images that ARE accepted. When I look at my portfolio of rejections, it appears to me there is more good selling stock there than my accepted portfolio. It's especially disappointing to see images that have very high sales rates elsewhere getting rejected here.

One area in which I hope Crestock will continue to be more forward-thinking is in the area of backgrounds. We are in a new age, where people are using backgrounds by the millions-- on the web, and as stationery and so many other places. But backgrounds are rejected at a very high rate here, and many of my own that are rejected are my top sellers on other sites. Also, I feel customers do not care as much about a tiny bit of noise in the shadows, or may actually LIKE many of the shallow DOFs that get rejected here. I think they care much more about finding the image that exactly fits their project, instead of worrying about some of the tiny technical details. One of the Judge Ross rejections was a blue glass background that he couldn't think of any use for. Well, I personally thought it was beautiful and I believe it's the kind of background that would sell fairly well-- people love this kind of look on their computer screen.

I realize it's my personal opinion, but I think some of the little technical details that get images rejected are keeping wonderful stock from reaching customers. For instance, I had a very pleasing shot of a straw hat rejected. But when I did a search on "straw hats" here, the results were disappointingly limited. So if nothing else, I hope the new sizing possibilities will help more images reach customers. Perhaps having more than 2 sizing options would help as well. I don't see anything else helping me decrease my "rejections" portfolio at the moment. Here's to the future!! I love the overall look of this site, and feel it has the "look" of a forward-thinking site. I guess details are simply still being ironed out. It can be frustrating to be in that process, but I stay here in the hopes that eventually it will be more and more rewarding. I don't like to quit, and I see some positive movement here.

Very good idea, particularly in view of the strict standards her.

A cracking idea!

Sounds like a good idea.  Just wondering, previously submitted photographs that were rejected because of technical issues/ size issue... would one then resubmit?

Does that mean I can upload previously rejected photoes to go 50%?

SOUNDS GREAT. What about the prevoiusly rejected photos?????

I think the Idea of FAUXWARE is very good:

FAUXWARE:
"Excellent idea. Maybe the inspector might also select the portion of the image that he think is better and propose it to the author, or just put the selection online as a new image?"

Maybe a bit more work for you but a lot of photos saved by total rejection

A very good idea! :)