Here we have a nature themed photo, where the shadows on the inside of the branch are not that easy on the eye.

Click Image> Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight which will bring up the following dialogue box.

You will notice that unless you have messed with the Shadows setting before, the default setting is on 50% which may make certain photos look bleached, especially if there is already too much light involved.
We slide the Shadow setting to 35-40% and the entire picture brightens up making the shadow less destructive.

You can play around with the highlights as well, but be careful as this may take the focus off the subject of the picture and to the background as the highlights setting tends to emphasize the entire colors spectrum rather grossly. If you feel there is the need for a quick highlighting try anything below 10-15% .

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!

To adjust the image directly to the screen size, double-click the Hand tool.

Other useful Shortcuts for zooming:

[Ctrl + =] - zoom in
[Ctrl + -] - zoom out
[Ctrl + 0] - fit to window

When you digitized a Type layer, you no longer have the option to revert back to your text and change the spelling, the number of words, or spaces between words.

But why do so?

If you apply a filter, of any type (from the filter menu), you have to do that. This is why Type layers are different to images layers. They are similar to Adobe Illustrator vector type layers and are such (fully editable, gradual etc.) until you convert them from vector to normal pixel layer. This is called digitizing (rasterizing). In previous versions of Photoshop this is also referred to as rendering. There is one basic rule: if you want to use a filter or different effects in your text, you need first to digitize.

Amount: 150%, Radius: 1 and Threshold: 7.
There is another way as well for achieving this:

You can use Adobe Illustrator (or Freehand, or CorelDRAW) to put your text on a path and then save the your image in EPS format and use the Place command in Photoshop (under the File menu) to insert the text with the path.

You can then use the Color Picker to move the mouse pointer to a true color, take a sample from the true colors and return to your previous picture which you then can color with the color you selected.

The clipping group used in the layers is often confused with the well-known term clipping path, but they are two completely different things. The only common point is their effect: a group of off putting your picture in a text (or whatever space) and in the next lower layer, we can say it removes everything except the limits of the text.

A clipping path is created with the Pen and you can save this path so that when you insert the image into another application (like QuarkXPress, the Adobe InDesign, the Adobe Illustrator, etc.), you can cut anything that is outside the path. This technique is often used for white backgrounds that lie behind objects.

As a conclusion, remember that the clipping groups is a layers working technique, the clipping path is a path created with the Pen tool and that it is used to separate images from their background.