Christmas parties and family gatherings are times when tons of photos are taken. Everybody who has a camera will take pictures of friends and relatives. Here's one trick you can use to make people look better in the picture. Turn your camera upside down when taking portraits.

File under oddity: Website Digital Camera University says that you can take better portraits (that is, pictures of people's faces) if you turn your digital camera upside down.

Why? It has to do with the location of the flash: Since it's mounted above the lens it creates slight shadows by the way the light bounces off the lines on your subject's face, which makes wrinkles and blemishes look more noticeable than they should. By turning the camera upside down, the light (now coming from beneath the lens) hits the face at a slightly different angle, creating a slightly different image. That's the theory, anyway. Via Yahoo! Tech