Digital imaging and photographic technology is evolving so quickly that anyone with a Mac or Windows PC, a CD-ROM drive and the appropriate photo software can pump out wildly altered pictures that until recently were possible only with $500,000 scanners such as a Scitex.

With a digitized image stored on a CD and a properly outfitted computer system, photographers can enjoy many benefits of true digital photography – limitless opportunities to enhance images, high-speed transmission to other computers, and the ability to incorporate photography into desktop publishing systems.