Many will have their views and evidences for this.
But the short answer is this.
Making images of animate beings is haram , everything else is halal.
The world "images" by normal standard definition would mean just that, images aka pictures. But we have people including statues in there as well and going all 2D/3D this and that to complicate the issue. Only thing of concern here is whether the word itself was translated from arabic to english correctly or not. Arabic is a definitive language and has precise words for each context you want to refer to. So I would be skeptic if the word 'image' was used as an all inclusive word to mean pictures and statues.
Anyways, images in any form or fashion (drawing, painting, blood, sand, etc) would be haram.
Images are different from photography. One requires your skill of the hand and materials used for craftsmanship while the other captures a life like image reflected onto the lens.
So what is the ruling on the photography then? There is no one rule on it, there is a difference of opinion. A conservative site like islamqa.com will say it is haram, while a not so conservative site like
http://islamweb.com/en will say it is allowed.
Then the issue comes with digital photography, for that even conservative site like islamqa says is acceptable so long as it stays digital.
Which leaves you as to what you should do ?
That depends on you. You can follow either of the two opinions as they both are scholarly based and inshallah there will be no sin on you. The issue with having images is that the angels of mercy do not enter such a place. If you want to be on the conservative side then you could digitize your pictures and save them that way. In that case, make sure to use a high quality scanner and save it as .png so as not to loose quality over time.