It was Dreamstime, but they never gave me those $5.

Maybe it would be a good idea to start new thread bout it, so people could see what you want right from the title.

OK, I got my payment today. My US sales are only 16,4% of my total sales.

Nice shots Goldenangel.

This image is very good Adelaide! The idea is also awesome!

Good idea...

You can apply any filter if reviewer thinks it will sell the image. I also notice the most popular images are colorized and I started few threads about it. My images were basically the same as raw files except some minor editing, but I decided to apply effects just for experiment. And guess what? My rejection rate didn't increase. Now, even on IS, I have images with fake sun, bicolor filters, color layers applied to the image manually etc...
Week ago, I sold one file like this for EL on IS, which means buyers also love them. Just be careful not to ruin the image quality with filters. Print quality after filtering has to be excellent as before filtering, and the image has to look pleasing to the eye.

Ok chl, I got your image and here is what I saw:
The image itself has good lighting, but it lacks contrast. Somehow, that lack of contrast makes it look a bit soft, If you take a close look at the center of the image (the focused part) you will notice that leaves edges are sharp enough, but one thing is missing...leaves texture. I guess it's because the contrast of the image is pretty low and those small differences in contrast that make the texture of the leaves visible are missing. The other problem is chromatic aberration (purple fringing). It's not strong in focused part of the image, but if you look at other parts it's pretty strong, especially when you get close to the corners if the image. It's normal to have chromatic aberration in those parts of the image when they are not focused, but on your image it's little too much. I don't know how much you paid for this lens, but obviously it's not very good. I don't say you have to spend thousands of dollars to have a decent lens, but this one will give you pretty much trouble. I honestly think you should consider the possibility of selling this, and buying some new lens. I didn't have time to find and read some review for this lens. You can google for it. I just told you what I saw. Next time when you buying some new lens read as much reviews as you can.

Now, what you can done to make some of your images acceptable on microstock. In your place, after full editing of image, I would apply very small amount of sharpening, and resize the image to 4 Mpix as a final step. I also tried to increase the contrast on your image using curves, and after is I resized the image to 4 Mpix, and it looked just fine. Both methods looked good with this image. The only problem still remains chromatic aberration...if it's too visible, your image will be rejected again.

UV filter doesn't look like problem to me. Both images have the same sharpness. But, as Goldenangel said, we have to check it at 100% size. Crop some focused small part of the image and post it in original size. Don't resize it to 1024 pix.

Guys, check your settings on Mostphotos and see if you have enabled watermarks. I had enabled watermark, but now after upgrading to new version this option was disabled, so my images were without watermark. I noticed there are several users with the same problem.

To enable watermark go to Settings, then again fing "settings" link on the left in the menu, click it, then click "watermark" link, click "enable" button to become green, and finally click button "Spara" which means "Save".

Regards,
Ivan

I checked it out, and it still looks a bit soft to me, but at least I can't see any purple fringing. Lighting here is different, and there is no any big contrast like on the first image you showed to us, so maybe that's the reason why I can't find any purple fringing, but also, maybe there won't be any purple fringing without extension. What bothers me is that softness. I would like if someone else could take a look at this picture and tell us if it's soft or not. Maybe it's just my auto suggestion. Your images are all resized to 1024 pix, so we can't check it in full size to really say the difference.

Almost every city in Adriatic and Ionian coast has an old part of the city, and it's always made of stone. It's usually full of restaurants, clubs, theaters. Very nice to visit.

Oh yes, wonderful city. Beautiful architecture, beautiful climate, beautiful nature.... River Neretva is so green, one could think it's painted. I looked at it many times to figure out why it's so green. I can't say it's because of algae, and I can't say it's because of because of green bushes because it's not always green. It's simply magical... The sound of two mountain rivers under the bridges filling my ears.....so romantic. Lots of sunshine whole year... Lots of tourists during summer....