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Even if you’re images are technically perfect they might be rejected if they are useless for commercial reasons.

Here’s a simple checklist with common commercial issues that could get your image submission rejected:

Always read the submission guidelines carefully and weed out images with questionable commercial value.

Note: here you should put the highest priority on images that falls within the market you identified in step #1-4.

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OK, so now it’s time to select images with good technical quality.

Here’s a simple checklist with common technical issues that could get your image submission rejected:

Always select ONLY your VERY BEST images for the first image submission because the QC controllers will be extra thorough in your first submission.

Even worse, if you fail to get only one image accepted they might reject your whole batch, especially if it’s you’re first submission.

Read the submission guidelines and make sure you don’t violate any technical requirement.

Next in line is to make sure you don’t end up as a jailbird but more about that in the next post.

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STEP #8: Select images that are commercially useful