Buying photoshop 4 mac to make cocktail art but I have some ?s

[rackoon]

Like I said I have a g4 mac and am going to buy photoshop for it in order to make some art for under the glass of my half built cocktail table but I have few questions that I hope someone here could help me answer.

1. (scanning drawings) so the can be worked on in photoshop. Can I do this at Staples or Kinko's if they are hand drawn cartoons of pac man and donky kong etc. And, if so, will it matter if my computer is a mac.

I have a molotov cocktail theme so I have drawings of donky kong smashing a molotov cocktail over Mario's head, angry looking pan man chasing ghosts with a molotov cocktail, space invaders dropping digital looking molotovs on a digital looking person, and finaly a centipede wrapped around a burning molotov.   

2. (printing) what does the art get printed on. I have heard some say vinyl and others say paper. Wont condensation wreck paper.  If it is vinyl then how do I print this?

3. If I do need some special help from possible one of the folk on this site will it mater if my work is on a mac. Can photo shop files go between mac and PC?

Any help would be great.

[Zero_Hour]

You should be able to scan at the listed locations. Just make sure that your scans are done at a high resolution (300dpi), and saved in TIFF format. You want to scan at a high resolution so that you don't pixelate the artwork if you need to enlarge it. If your artwork is drawn smaller than you envision it you may want to enlarge it prior to scanning.

Different people print on different materials. Some have had success with Kinkos, but I see Mamemarquees mentioned in a lot of project threads, and believe that they use vinyl or a similar material for their CPO overlays. I haven't gotten to printing yet, so perhaps someone with more experience could chime in.

Photoshop documents should be readable by both PC and Mac versions, the only issue is if you have a newer version of PS, and are sending it to someone with an older version. I'm pretty sure that there are compatibility options when saving in PS to alleviate those kinds of issues. If you send your PS document to a PC user, you will want to make sure you add the file extention to the end of the file name .psd, .tif, .jpg, etc. so that the windows user can more easily open the file.