Acquiring Images

You have a lot of flexibility in how you acquire images for your multimedia titles. Alternatives range from purchasing images from an image bank or professional photographer to capturing images yourself. Costs, image quality, and licensing/copyright issues can affect your final decision. The following methods identify four common alternatives:

Purchasing—buying digital images

Creating—creating electronic images using specialized software

Scanning—digitizing photographs or flat art using a color scanner

Digitizing Video—digitizing video frames using a camera and frame-grabber