It is particularly important in this instance that you consider copyright. Make sure that the image you are copying is not under copyright, and also ask the author of the page for permission to use the image on your site. There are a number of companies that produce quality images for purchase. Some companies offer an on-line subscription service that provides you with unlimited access to their images. Check the resource links page for information on some of these vendors.
Video can also serve as an image source.
You can capture still frames from video content and use them as images on your Web pages. Curricular Computing has a video workstation set up for digitizing video. Contact John Hawkins if you would like to learn more about digital video options, and also visit our digital video didactic site. Image processing The most common image editing software for creating Web images is Adobe's Photoshop. You can use Photoshop to scale and compress your images for the Web.