How to prepare digital images

With so many recent advances in technology, it has become possible to bring almost any level of digital imaging capabilities in-house. The trouble is sorting through all of the different options to get exactly what you need.

The first step is to decide exactly what you need. Are you building a Web site on which you need to place images of your products? Are you going to publish a glossy catalog? A newsletter on newsprint with pictures of your staff? All of these require recording and manipulating images digitally – albeit in different ways.

You’ll need to begin with a computer.…