Step 1.
Upload your image on Photoshop. We will use a random internet pic in this case.

Step 2.
Reach out for the Stamp tool on your left hand sidebar as shown below.

Step 3. We will not create a new layer for this tutorial. So, no need to create one. In this sense this is more of a note than a step!

Step 4. Using the Stamp tool you chose on Step 2 and by left-clicking and gliding choose the cellulite affected area.

Step 5. Once you pick the piece of skin you want to “heal” drag it and drop it on an area of skin where no cellulite is present, in the following manner.

Step 6. Once you choose the cellulite free area, the stamp tool will detect automatically and apply the same shades and texture settings identified on that area to the cellulite skin. Continue until you remove cellulite from the entire affected area. Try to use different size of patches to make the final result look more blended and natural.

Step 7. Choose the layer on the right hand side of your photoshop window and do a double left click which will unlock it and from the top bar choose: Layer->Duplicate Layer. Name that layer Copy. For step 8 we will work on the copy layer.

Step 8. From the top nav bar of photoshop choose Filter-> Blur ->Surface Blur. This will blur the entire cellulite affected area with the new layer we just created.

Step 9. To get a more natural result we will create a new mask by choosing the mask button on the bottom right bar of your photoshop window . That being done it will turn the copy layer into black and it will depend on us which bits of the corrected skin will be visible.

Step.10 To do this , choose the brush tool from the left hand sidebar and the white colour and start brushing on top of the skin area you want to reveal cellulite free. Set the opacity to approximately 70% and brush away!

If you like what you see in the end, waste no more time! Time to head to the gym!

Adding Spiral Beams around your objects really gives a 3D sense to your objects. We will see on this tutorial how you can add these beams around any object you may want to give depth to using Photoshop CS4. For the purposes of this tutorial we suggest using a 3D object like this sphere but any object would do.

1. The first thing we want to do is create a new layer.

2. Next we will open our path’s panel and choose the ellipse tool. Once you pick the ellipse tool go to the tool’s options bar on the top toolbar and click on the middle icon named Path, you can easily identify it by hovering over with your cursor on the icons of the toolbar. This will turn your cursor into a little pen tool. With this tool chosen draw a very thin wide oval near the base of your object.

3. Next we need to choose our direct selection tool. This is placed usually just over the ellipse tool, on the lower portion of the tools toolbar and is marked with a black arrow. Click on it and select the path of the oval object you just designed, this will bring up 4 anchors. We want to add 2 more anchors to these, so we will go to the Pen tool and from the available tools choose the add anchor tool. Click on it and create 2 extra anchors just on the edges of your object on the areas highlighted.

4. Once we have all 6 anchors set, we will go back to the direct selection tool and we will choose the anchors that would stand lie behind our object and delete them. This will give us a flat C running around in the front side of our object.

5. Next we will grab this path and move it down to the new path button. This is placed on the bottom toolbar of the paths panel. Once done right click on it and duplicate that path. We will now edit the duplicate path we just created. We will select the path that runs on the left side of our object and delete it.

6. Next we will grab our brush tool, which is placed on the top side of the tools toolbar.
Click on it and go to brush options, we will set the brush diameter to 7pxls and set hardness to 100%. Next click on the brush options dialogue box, which is placed just on top of the paths panel you have running and turn shape dynamics ON.

7. Next right click on the duplicate path and select stroke path. Choose brush and simulate pressure. This will create a beam that whirls around the object.

8. Now we will switch to the original path and again on the path selection tool. Select the paths of the swirl we created before, hold down the shift key and hit the upper arrow key a few times so the path will move upwards. Once done we will replicate the stroke path steps as described on step 7. This will create another swirl. Repeat this until you get the desired number of swirls.

9. Finally we want to give our swirls an angle. For this go back to the Layers mode, remember we were working on the paths mode until now, and select the swirls layer. Right click on it after you select it and select skew and give your swirls an angle by pulling the top right corner a bit up and the bottom left down, which will give them a cool moving effect.

First thing you need to do is open your photo on photoshop, right click on layer and duplicate the photo twice by Right Click-> Duplicate -> OK.
Once this is done turn off your background layer, and now you are ready to go into the main retouching process.

First we will apply a filter to the first layer, that’s Filter -> Distort -> Diffuse Glow , which will bring up the Diffuse Glow menu as shown below.

Next you want to move the graininess slider to 0, the glow between 4 and 7 and finally the clear slider between 7 and 10 to avoid wash-out colours hit ok, and you are done with your first layer.

Moving on to your second layer, Filter->Blur->Gaussian Blur and set it to 5.5 and move back to your top layer.

Select the top layer and go to blending mode to overlay and there you go your new picture glamourized with soft focus and softer light in less that 5mins!