Pictures, continued...

Now, you've got yourself a spiffy new digital camera. Now what? Well, you need to resize and touch up your photographs with a decent graphics program. Personally, I like Paint Shop Pro:

Jasc Software

It is fairly inexpensive (compared to Photoshop, et al.), easy to use and there are lots of books written about it.

For use on a web page, you want to optimize the photo so that it doesn't take 3 hours to view. You can usually get decent quality at 256 colors and a picture size of about 320x240 pixels. Try to keep your photo to around 15k - 25k in size and your viewers won't complain about waiting forever for your pics to load.