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I don't know

I'm trying to take pictures of my art, but they keep coming out with the paper looking well, dark, and I want people to sse my art well, can anyone tell me hoe to take a better picture of my art?

Make sure your camera is parallel to your drawing. It helps to make sure you're in a well lit area. Also, make sure your camera is stable. Taking the picture right when you exhale (instead of holding your breath) is best.

The key is to make the drawing's paper look as close to white as you can get it with the lighting you have. Then take it into photoshop or another photo editing program and adjust the contrast so our white are white and your darks are dark.

Hey. I've taken photos of my pictures before when I didn't have a scanner to use.

The one thing I found that helped get more light for taking pictures was to take them outside, under daylight. Daylight is pretty good lighting, and diffuse, and cloudy overcast days worked best for me. I fiddled with the exposure and shutter speed on my digital camera and took some eight to 15 photos with different exposure settings under cloudy daylight, and one or two of the photos would turn out well.

If you don't have daylight, you could try turning on as many lights as you can get your hands on... getting both incandescent and fluorescent lights so the photo doesn't turn out too yellow or bluish. Seems that if you have too much light, you can always turn down the exposure, but there's not too much to do if you don't have enough. Hope that helps :)

Actually, assuming that your art is on paper, I will have to recommend that you get a scanner. Photographs hardly ever bring good presentation, particularly without a lot of color value editing.

Check this out: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16838111121

That brings you to the Canoscan LiDE 25. On Newegg it's currently marked down to $50, and is probably the best you will find for the least amount of money. My friend has one, and he's had positive things to say about it. Now myself, I've got a LiDE 60 ($70), but Newegg doesn't sell it any more. It works just fine after nearly 2 years of abuse, though I don't know enough to compare the two or any other product. I do not know if there are Vista drivers.

This one is a little more expensive, but it works on Vista: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16838111023

Now if you want to do your own looking around, what you want is a USB flatbed scanner. Most fit 8.5x11" paper, and scanning resolution doesn't matter too much -- print size is typically 300 dpi (or 600 for humongous prints or super high quality). I always scan at print resolution and shrink, because it's typically much nicer of a result.

If you can not purchase a scanner, keep your hands stable (tripod?) and keep the art as well-lit as possible. Be prepared for a lot of retouching in your program of choice (I use GIMP)