now I can cancel my gym membership!



While perusing my daily pop websites, I read that HP has introduced a new “slimming feature,” which promises to trim pounds off of photo subjects using image special effects on a number of its new digital-camera models. source It’s basically taking photoshopping and airbrushing to a whole new level while making it easily accessible to the masses. As stated on the HP website, “With the slimming feature, anyone can appear more slender – instantly!... They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is a subtle effect that can instantly trim off pounds from the subjects in your photos!” HP promises the effect is subtle so subject still look like themselves, but can also be adjusted for a more dramatic effect. For more information and a video demonstration, visit HP’s website here.

Not sure how I feel about this. I am sure this will be a handy feature when I am having those ‘fat days’ that require sweatpants, a box of cookies, and lounging on the couch while watching horribly addictive reality shows…and Brian sneaks up to take a snapshot. Or to alter those always unflattering super drunk poses I do when hanging out with the girls at the bar (I should learn to never let people take pictures after 6 shots of Jäger).

But I also see the repercussions. Now 14 year old teeny boppers can alter their myspace pics even more allowing them to look like super hot 17 year olds dressed in low cut tank tops showing more cleavage than I have even today (as a bonus the picture caption will still read: ‘being silly with the girls’, ‘trying out the camera’, or ‘funny face!’ trying to insuitate that they aren’t trying overly hard to impress… but they are.) Or what happens if people try this effect on pictures of Nicole Richie or Kate Bosworth? Will their frames disappear completely? Will only a skeleton remain?

However, the choice is yours. Not all pictures have to be altered – it is an option. And it might just be a handy option to have (like if I forgot that Jäger rule again). If you are interested in viewing a list of HP cameras with the slimming feature included and where to purchase them, click here.