>We are about to digitize images of works of art to create a computer >imagebase for use on Macintosh computers. General advice: - buy some extra RAM - use a Quadra 650, 800, 950 if possible, because they are fast and have less hardware-compatibility issues than the new AVs. - if you don't have someone who is good at scanning, a high-res scanner, and decent software (PhotoShop, e.g.), you'll save time and money by having someone else do it. - the Canon digital camera (>$1000) worked well for a friend of mine, but only if you want screen images, not high-quality print images. >What about Kodak Photo-CD as an alternative to in-house digitizing? I used a service bureau recently for just this purpose. They turned 35mm slides into CD-ROMs. It cost us ninety cents per image, plus a few bucks for the disks, and they put ~100 images on each CD. We got 5 resolutions of each image, several of which were higher quality than we could have produced in-house, given file-size issues and scanning resolutions. Also, the disks came with thumbnails of each photo, numbered for indexing and retrieval ease. If you want to store high-quality digital images on a hard drive, you'll need a huge one (or more), plus an image database of some kind. Aldus Fetch and Cumulus are two of the more popular programs. Remember that 24-bit color images are roughly twice the storage size of 16-bit, which are twice the storage size of 8-bit images. 24-bit images are resolved at better than the eye can perceive, 16-bit are good but not as good as the eye, 8-bit is abysmal. >I'd also welcome advice about how to deal with copyright issues with >digital images. Hire a good lawyer experienced in copyright law, or create all your own materials. just my opinions, hope this helps. Susan *^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^%*^% [log in to unmask]