Preparing images

If you want to add images to your web pages, you'll probably need some image editing software to get them looking the way you want them to and optimise them for the web.

Although they're probably overkill for beginners, Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop both have tools designed to make saving images for the web easy. There are also more lightweight image editors available; often specialised to do just one task.

To get your images onto the computer in the first place you will probably be using either a scanner or a digital camera. In either case, you would have received some simple image-editing software in the box.