Best settings to convert RAW into high quality JPEG

I am a little bit lost when reading discussions regarding the best way to have photos accepted by Istockphoto. They are extremely demanding about the quality of the pictures and they accept zero artifacts for example.
I read that any corrections made of a RAW picture in Lightroom 4 must be very minimal (almost no correction for saturation, vibrace, exposure,  and sharpening, noise etc.).
In this case it would mean that Lightroom is of no use and whay not use directly Photoshop CS6 to convert the RAW photo into a high quality JPEG.
If this is true, can someone tell me what are the best settings in CS6 to convert a RAW photo into a JPEG format ?

A raw picture is just that.  You have to edit it in Adobe Camera Raw to get the picuture to shine.  So their statement that edits must be minimal is confusing.  Do they just want a jpeg as shot?  You can set most cameras to take raw + jpeg. 
Also, high quality means a certain minimium of height and width in pixels.  What do they want?

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