TRSE: How To Draw Tutorials:
Posting the Artworks on Internet

       The first and most obvious thing any artists would need is a scanner that can scan the artworks, and display them in the computers. The flatbed scanners generally cost about $50 to $150, but you can find a good scanner at a bargain price in some places like eBay.com or any online stores that sell cheap.  If buying an used scanner, make sure they come with installion CDs, power plugs & cables. I bought a Primax scanner for $45 from a Circuit City store years ago and it did good. But now that good ol' scanner died, so I got my excellent Epson Perfection 1660 Photo Scanner from Ebay.com for a "Steal" price of $25 (should be priced at $150), lucky me! Some scanners may be tricky to work with, but if you just play with them, you'll be able to figure out how to use them. Never say "I'm not good with technical stuff!" which is a bias that has been preprogrammed into your mind! Use your brains to overcome that and PLAY with the computers and scanners! Don't say: "How can I get it to do what I want it to do?" when you should be saying this: "What does this work? What does this do? What happens if I click on this one?"  There is one thing about the scanners that you want to know about is DPI which is a measure of resolution. Bigger a resolution, bigger a scanned picture will be. A picture scanned with 200 DPI will be about four times bigger than a picture scanned with 100 DPI (proven by my own scanner).  150 to 250 DPI is the best range for your artworks, and many computers can't handle anything bigger than 300 DPI well.
    The next thing you would need is a good art program to handle any scanned pictures, and the art programs can even do the scanning for you. Many computers have Microsoft (MS) Paint, but it's a basic paint tool that can do only basic stuff. There are other art programs that are better and more useful, and I'm listing the examples:

-MGI Photosuit 8.0 which I use for making GIFs and coloring, but it's an old program so I don't know if it's still available for download.
-JASC Paint Shop Pro, a popular art program, but expensive.
-Pixia, an art program developed by Japanese artist which can be downloaded for free.
-There are lot more art programs out there that I don't know about, and those might be better than what I listed above.

A good art program should have the essential functions as listed below:
    -Good range of colors.
    -Useful basic tools such as "Draw Straight Line", "Freehand Draw", "Airbrush", "Flood Fill", "Add Text", and an ability to copy and paste a highlighted object.
    -Should be able to save any pictures as JPG (JPEG), GIF, BMP and PNG formats.
    -Should be able to cleanly resize a picture to smaller size.

    Once you have an art program in your computer, all you do is PLAY WITH IT to learn what it can do. You'll learn faster this way than reading some technical blahy manuals.