Portrait - of a tigergirl

I added a layer mask to blur the background a bit more.

Any critic is welcome.!

No critic here. Who could resist such a lovely and funny portret. One tip though.....There is a slight halo visible caused by the layermask and amount of blurring.
This portret is perfect to select with the pen tool and then use lens blur found under:filter>blur>lens blur. You can achieve a very realistic backround blur, simulating the use of fast aperture lenses. The pen tool is a bit difficult to master, but probably the best selecting tool for this job. It gives you a very large amount of control.
Regards,
Martin

Love the picture, but I'd have said more of a butterfly than a tiger...

Well........,i seem to recal there are actually species of butterfly's who go by the name; Tigerwing or something like that

Martin.

Thanks both.

Yeah Martin I need to try that method. Time consuming for sure that PS work

There are some good video tutorials about this subject in PS you can google.

Martin.

http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4960/digital-toolbox-how-to-edit-portraits.html
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Thanks alot....Now I just need some time