Publishers have a look they’re going for.  Some stuff is cool in the background.  Some stuff isn’t.  Apparently, my VANITY taste is not professionally refined.  Lemme show you what I would have photoshopped out of our pictures. (The above picture is just an adorable shot of my daughter in a floppy hat. Never photoshop perfection.)

So, here’s what I would have disappear-ed:

My neighbor's BULGING trash can.

 

The tops of our fish-eye lens created cone heads.

Arm flab, frown lines, etc.

In fairness, they cropped that last one where it was just my hands and cukes.  And not that I truly dislike how I look here.  But, wouldn’t it be fun to get the official magazine photoshop treatment, even if they just mailed it to me as a present?  Squee!

Anyway, here’s the actual photoshop work.  See if you can spot the difference.

PICTURE 1

PICTURE 2

Did you see it?