There's a simple trick to looking your best in smartphone photos

Have you ever taken a selfie, then looked at it afterward and thought That's not even what I look like!

The problem was likely wide-angle distortion, the property of smartphone lenses (and other super-wide cameras) that renders their subjects a bit odd-looking and cartoonish.

Fortunately, there's a simple way around the problem, if you just understand a bit about the optics of these devices.

Here's what you need to know.