Panasonic wants to move portrait retouching off of computers and directly into cameras. Their Lumix FX77 compact camera released last week has a “Beauty Retouch Mode” that allows users to make all kinds of edits to faces immediately after capturing the photo:

The Beauty Retouch Mode makes it possible to virtually makeup the faces. In Esthetic Mode, various effects can be applied to the face including clearing the skin texture, whitening of teeth and so on. In the Make-up Mode, you can choose the color of foundation, lips, cheeks or eye-shadow. [#]

The photoshopping capabilities aren’t limited to what can be done naturally — users can also do chin lifts and eye enlargements!



Here’s a lineup of the “enhancements” offered:

When used together, here’s what it can do for a face:

Finally, we leave you with this short news segment that introduces this strange feature:

Panasonic Lumix FX77 (via Reuters)