Well....Some would say “The best way to get professional type pixs is....use a professional camera”. Some others say “Its not the Camera that takes the Photograph...it's the Photographer”. The Truth... You don't have to have the biggest and the best to get a pro image. Just a good entry level camera and some basic understanding of what makes a “Professional Photo”.
Composition and Exposure.
First the camera should be a SLR (D-SLR for Digital). The sensor on these cameras are bigger (Yes ...Size does matter) to gather more light for clarity and color and loads more detail. That plus Larger lenses (that also gather more light) will get you zoomed in to your subjects and create the Depth Of Field (DOF) that pro photos have. You get that Subject in sharp focus and the background totally blurry look.
Compact cameras are good but you need “Control” to get the photos you are looking for.
Composition is key to good photography. Read up on the “Rule of Thirds” for more information. This will change the way you take photos.
Next is Exposure. Making light (and sometimes the lake of) work for YOU. Again...compact cameras will not give you control over exposure. Some Advanced cameras give you a little....but not as much as a D-SLR.
Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus all have great entry level D-SLR cameras. Any of these with the stock lens and the addition of a 70-300mm lens will get you the results your craving.

Any cameras that will take decent enough photos for this will need to be 6 megapixel or higher. The cameras usually have settings for image size that will make your file smaller but this is done by reducing pixel size..6mp down to 3mp...or smaller.....bad thing. You will loose a lot of color and clarity when this happens.

It is best to use the software supplied with the camera to reduce image size and amount of Jpeg compression. Better still is to use Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and “save Image for Web” as the saving option. This way you can take a 10 megapixel, 3 meg image and resize it to 750x533 at 72 dpi and when saved it will be under the 36k file size and still look high res.

It is hard to say one is better over another. This has been argued over for some time with all 3 types, Optical, Mechanical and Digital having many pros and cons. Everybody having their own personal opinion including myself. Read this article at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_...
to help you decide.

Each Cyber-shot camera is different and the layout varies from camera to camera. You will need to
use the music transfer application to move your MP3s to the camera. Do note that this software only works on Windows PCs . This application can be found in Motion Picture Browser® and in Picture Package® Music Transfer software. As an example follow this link to see a tutorial at Sony on using the Picture Package® version: http://www.kb.sony.com/selfservice/...

You will need to search the Sony site for YOUR model of camera ( DSC?????) to get the specific instructions and software (if you don't already have it) for Your camera.