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Open in PS
First lest set PS up. Click Edit > Preferences > Cursors. In the painting cursors tick full size brush tip. Apply
Now to the work
Double click the background layer (which should be the only layer with the photo in) > Click OK > Right Click the layer > Convert to smart layer > Effects > Blur > Gaussian Blur
Play with the sliders until you happy there is enough blur. Don't worry about it blurring the whole image or being to much. Apply
Now you will see there is something under the layer. Click into the white section. This is a mask. Press G (bucket or gradiant tool) then D (sets default colours black - white). If is brings up the gradient tool then click and hold the left mouse button on the icon on the tool bar and the bucket tool will become available. Make sure the foreground colour is black, if not press x then click on the photo anywhere and the blur will go.
Press B on the keyboard (brush tool) then x to change the foreground colour to white. Now press the ] key and keep pressing it till its fairly large then hold down shift and press the {. You will notice the circle (if not already like this) go "fussy". This means your are spraying colour with a feathered edge. Now where you want to blur out you spray with the brush. If you go to far then you can spray it out with black. If the feather is to little and your at full feather ( shift+{ ) increase your brush size ( ] ).
If you need to bring back the amount of blur then there are 3 ways.
1. Change your colour to a gray and spray. This is like making parts of the mask opaque. The darker the gray the less the blur will show where you spray.
2. See in the layers the icon at the end of the row of the Gaussian blur. Double click and change the opacity.
3. As this is a smart layer, double click the row (not icon) Gaussian blur and just adjust the amount of blur with the original effect tool.
It may take you some time to get used to it all but practice will pro-vale. Make sure your only practicing on copies.
I know you posted this in the beginners section but hope its not to complicated.
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