   Beginner: How Do You Get Real Art To Become Computer Sprites?
  I have an artist who can draw.  I want to take her art and transfer it onto computer to use as backgrounds, sprites, and animation strips.  What is the best way for us to that?  Graphic Designer?, A piece of software? Scan it?  I don't know, please help?   
  well unless your friend is doing this drawing digitally you will have to scan it in somehow.  I believe when you scan it in you have the option of what format you want it to be saved as (.bmp, .png, .tga, etc...)  However, unless you have a really high-rez scanner this is not going to be very useful for the purposes of creating a game.  You're much better off finding someone who knows how to use a digital content creation package a la Photoshop to create this sort of thing for you.   ;  Scan a rough sketch, then retouch it using a tool like Photoshop driven by a digitizing tablet. You can't immediately use scanned images unless you have a very high resolution, high quality acquisition device.   ;  Thanks for this info, I am meeting with the artist this afternoon.  I'm starting to realize that the creation of game art work is best created on a computer.   