I look great in this picture!

[Disneyphile]

Wow. More excuses to just keep weight on.

Now, if only the camera had a way to digitally remove heart disease too.....

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

Wow. More excuses to just keep weight on.

Now, if only the camera had a way to digitally remove heart disease too.....

It should come with a coupon for a discount at the therapist's office.

Seriously, if you hate your appearance enough that you need to modify it in good photos of yourself, you have problems.

Originally Posted by iSm

I was wondering that about NA's camera, too. But the fact is, it's much more likely to be done if you can do it in camera ... with no post-production necessary. Ease of special effects when it comes to casual photos is a boon.

What he said. NA showed me her camera's abilities and it's so easy, even the photoshopper in me was impressed. Many people do not have photoshop, or the knowledge to pull off effects like that, and the camera does it all for you with instant results.

[Alex]

I guess, but it wouldn't require photoshop. I guess my biggest issue is that (I'm assuming) the original photo is lost (so you can't have both the funny picture and the good picture) and the method for evaluating decency of the result is inherently crappy (being squished down to a one-inch screen covers a lot of sins).

Regardless of ease of use, at some point the photo is going to be offloaded for further distribution and viewed then. Just seems better to me to have those features built into the image viewer than the image taker.

But then I'm not much of a casual photographer (and hardly ever take pictures of people, so the slimming is particularly useless to me unless I want to minimize a tree or something) so I'm sure my perspective is once again warped.