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How to improve the photos of devices you want to sell online

Many people buying products online look at the photos uploaded by sellers before they read the description, so if your photo is bad, you may lose sales

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Give your photos the 3D effect

3D imagery has recently become popular again, thanks mainly to a recent spate of Hollywood movies. We show you how to turn a normal photo into a 3D image

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Create panoramas from photos

Have you ever been on holiday and wished you could capture the entire vista in one photo? We show you how to stitch your photos together on your PC

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Compress the file size of your photos without losing quality

Digital cameras make taking pictures much easier, but storing them uses a lot of disk space. Free software will compress image files without losing their quality

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Share and map your photos easily

Google's Panoramio will help you put your photos online, pinpoint their locations on a map and share them with others

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