I decided to give it another try and enrolled to sites which are so called "Big 7":
Since I am newbie I decide that I will try to upload 500 random pictures from my collection to see how it would work for me. I did not make any particular selection, I chose randomly. Different sizes, subjects, quality.
Shutterstock. The number one site for microstock. It is truly efficient. Uploading thru FTP took 8 hours. The you can submit pictures in 50 piece batches. User interface is ok but I wish it remembers tags I used before and somehow let me to reuse them. They are quite strict, my rejection rate is about 90% but in couple cases I thought photo is bad and not interesting but they approved it. I am in the middle of submitting process so I can give exact number when I am done. They are quick, most photos were reviewed on same day.
![Shutterstock](http://submit.shutterstock.com/banners/468_60_banner_02.gif)
Istockphoto. I am a little disappointed with them. After whole day it's still not up and ready. I had to upload my photo id twice and approval is still pending.
Dreamstime. I can upload only 100 files. FTP upload is available but I blocked my bandwith trying to finish upload to other sites :-)
![Royalty Free Images](http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/img/badges/badge1.jpg)
Fotolia. This are the guys. I tried while ago. It took almost whole day to upload 500 files. Submitting interface is a little better. It remembers categories but still do not remembers tags. There 10 photos displayed per page so it would slow me a little even if it seems to be easier to fill data per each photo. After one day they did not touch any of my pending photos.
![Fotolia](http://static.fotolia.com/banner/common/gif/us/468x60.gif)
Stockxpert. They wanted 10 photos for approval first and do not give any status for this process.
BigStockPhoto. FTP works but I am limited to 250 pictures. In addition to that they only review 20 photos at the time so I am done here for a while. I hate that they not only require 7 tags like others but also at least seven words description. Category selection also sucks.
![Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Photography, Photo Search](http://www.bigstockphoto.com/images/s1.gif)
123rf. FTP upload seems to be quite fast but then if I want to display pending queue it is not paged and tries to download huge web page :-) They also want photo ID for verification.
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