Good original photography can add real impact and value to a website, and with cheap photo scanners and vastly improved digital cameras, it's never been easier to get your snaps online.

Digital cameras make it easy to download images to your PC, although scanned prints from old 35mm cameras can produce great results (it's worth remembering that some of the greatest photographs were taken on simple rangefinder cameras).

Always scan images in at the highest resolution available and reduce down to 72dpi for web use later - you'll retain better quality by reducing the image rather than blowing it up and the higher resolution gives you scope to crop and zoom into the image.

It's not unusual for scanned images or digital photographs to appear too dark or washed out onscreen, so expect to have to fire up your graphics editor.

Be sure to keep a back up copy of the scanned image in case you get a bit carried away in the filter department!