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There are many effective techniques for capturing a photo of your item and saving it on your computer:

Digital Camera
A digital camera is just like a regular camera except that it doesn't use film; instead, it stores photos digitally in its memory. Once you take a photo of your item, you can connect your camera to your computer and save the photo to the hard drive.

Regular Camera and Scanner
Take a picture with your regular camera, get it developed, and use a scanner to convert the picture to a digital image. The scanner will then ask you to choose a location and file name to save the image. If the item you are selling is small and flat (like baseball cards or stamps), you can just put them directly on the scanner. Remember that you must save the photo in either a .gif or .jpg format in order to use it on eBay.

Regular Camera and Digital Film Processor
There are a couple of methods you may use in transferring images from regular film to your computer. 1) You can ask your local digital film processor to save copies of your photos onto a computer disk (CD) to take home and transfer to your computer, or 2) you can ask your film processing service if they use Kodak PhotoNet, a service that can digitally post copies of your photos to the Kodak PhotoNet.com website. You can then copy your photos from the PhotoNet website to your computer to use whenever you like.

	While you can usually just point and shoot to take photos of your items, here are a few tips you can use to make your items really stand out: Use natural light whenever possible. If your item has any shiny surfaces a flash can reflect back at the camera and distort the photo. Use a plain background to make your item stand out; however, don't use a pure white background as this tends to wash away colors and creates too much contrast in the photo. Consider taking a close-up of a section of the item in addition to the entire object in order to give buyers a better idea of the item's actual condition.

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