Quote Originally Posted by reijo View Post
Can you tell me how you did this.I have been reading the manual in photoshop but it is not that clear
As always in PS, there's often multiple ways to do things. For this, I used curves to up the contrast a little. Then duplicated the layer, and added a lens blur filter to blur the whole photo. Then add a black mask to this layer, and paint in with a soft white brush, which reveals the blurred layer background.

Just a quick 5 minute job - doing it properly would requie more attention to the dog edges, as some of the fur is fairly soft...