Glamour-look tutorial

Do you want to turn your simple photo into glamorous one? Try this tutorial which i find very easy to follow. And i guess many out there are also doing this steps to make their photos look like glamorous. For a newbie like me, i tell you this is not a camera trick but a photoshop magic :)

So here we go....
1) Open your desired picture on photoshop.

2) Duplicate that picture - Go to layer then duplicate layer.

3) Be sure you are on the top layer on your layer palette...now go to Filter and choose Blur- Gaussian blur. Make it slide to 25 pixels and above ( it depends on how big your file is). Now your picture looks like very blurry. Like you're wearing an eyeglassses with +XXX grade, hahaha.

4) Still on that layer now go to Image, then to Adjustment and go to Brightness/Contrast. Now move both the slider to +15.

5) Lastly go into your layer's palette menu and choose Overlay and boila! your picture looks like very glamorous. You can also adjust the Hue/Saturation for the reds so that your picture won't become too reddish.

Here is my example. I played with my own photo. Actually i also changed the background. I cut it and paste in another studio-like background but that is another story.