Bit of extra info if you like. Bit of extra info if you like. Bit of extra info if you like. To turn normal print photographs into the binary format needed to post them on the internet you need to have access to a scanner. Picture scanners come several formats the useful here being Hand held Scanners and Flatbed.
Hand held scanners are cheapest but are also the most difficult to acheive good results with.
In shape they look a bit like the bar code scanners used at the checkouts in supermarkets. Which means that to scan a picture with them you have to more the scanners 'reader' over the surface of the photograph. As you can imagine this requires a very steady hand, and can be slow and frustrating if you have to scan many pictures. One techniqure though is to align the picture with bound edge of a book or a box and slide the side of the scanner along it. If you have to scan many pictures to high quality standard then you need to purchase a Flat-bed scanner.