Credit: J. Trauger (JPL/NASA)
Two increasingly popular ways of acquiring images to display on the
Web are through (a) scanners (both paper and film), and (b) digital
cameras.
Both have come down greatly in price while increasing in quality: prices
range from under $100 to about $1000. Scanners have been around for a
while, and many graphics packages have scanner acquisition controls built
in, whereas afordable cameras are much more recent and typically provide
their own software. In all cases, however, images from cameras or scanners
are stored in either ".jpg" or GIF formats, and so they can be imported
into almost any raster graphics program.
Acquiring Graphics from a Digital Camera
Acquiring Graphics from a Scanner
