All of us are aware that we'll encounter some limitations with our digital cameras sooner or later - most especially with compacts - so we definitely need all the advice we can get on how to make the most out of them.

Fortunately for us, there are ways to improve our digicams in inexpensive ways. Here's one you can do yourself that greatly improve the images that you take. You can attach a wide-angle door viewer to the lens of your camera that will provide your old camera with a 160-degree wide angle view.

You need a wide angle door viewer which you can buy at any hardware store. You have to look for one that has the largest possible eyehole as the ones with small openings will not produce good images.

You then remove the threaded backing from the door viewer and then start snapping away. If your camera has a center-weighted mode, turn that on to force it to focus on the image that you've chosen.

You can also choose to edit photos you've taken in either Gimp or Photoshop to crop out the circular image (the object of the photo itself).