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There a number of ways to get your pictures ready for the Internet. The latest but most expensive is to purchase a "digital" camera. These digital cameras offer the user a quick and easy way to take a digital picture that your computer can understand. The costs range from a few hundred dollars to THOUSANDS of dollars! The drawback is that they are of no help to those old pictures you already have in your scrapbook. One of the more popular ways to get digital pictures, is to invest in a "scanner". The easiest scanners are the "flat bed" design. They work something like a Xerox copy machine. Just lay your photograph on the lens of the scanner and it will take a digital picture that is Internet ready. Scanner prices start at under $100.00 and a top of the line scanner is only a few hundred dollars. An inexpensive alternative to digital cameras and scanners is to have your next roll of film developed at your local film developer and request a "Kodak Picture Disk" along with the prints. For a nominal fee, usually around $5.00 if done at time of processing, most developers can make copies of that roll of film onto a floppy disk and then VOILA, you have digital pictures that are computer and Internet ready!