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Lose 10 pounds at the click of a button

Or at least it compresses the truth, slimming down the I-wish-I-looked-thinner masses.

The relatively new HP Photosmart cameras with the built-in slimming feature have become big sellers partly because they take off 10 pounds without forcing you to gnaw on celery.

"Most of us don't have model training," said Linda Kennedy, digital camera category manager for Hewlett Packard. "We don't know how to pose in front of the camera."

The slimming cameras, which range in price from $149 to $350, remove the 10 pounds that the camera normally adds, according to Hewlett Packard.

But are these fat-busting cameras merely democratizing the tricks that fashion photographers have used for years? "