Notes on the Photoshop Project

These show how to select the background only and edit it with filters. 

• To give the picture a sharper focus on a face perhaps, select the background with the magnetic lasso tool and then apply a Guassian Blur to the background. 
  
• The eye picks out faces, words and numbers, and also differences in images.
  
• using the regular lasso tool, select a few pixels into the hair/edge you are working with and a few pixels out into the background, and apply a Guassian blur to it as well to smooth the edges. Little touch ups can be made with the blue tool.