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# It's where you outline the subject if you're going to change the background
In this instance, I outlined the bloke using the lasso tool, whited him, blacked the background, inverted it, and pasted it into a layer mask. It'll just show the background, like a cut-out.

Essentially, only the top layer is blurred; the background is as it was originally, making him not as blurred.
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:47, archived)
# ah, so basically the same thing as outlining the subject and doing "layer via copy" and changing the rest
except without creating a new layer?
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:53, archived)
# YES!
Pretty much
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:54, archived)
# bollocks. layers are more fun. the more the better.*
*may not be true in large amounts
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:55, archived)
# I had to do a layer anyway
So I could blur it.
(, Thu 20 Nov 2008, 2:56, archived)