Keystone,
In PS Elements, you can also "hijack" a mask in an adjustment layer if you want. Apply the blur to a top background copy layer, go to Layers>Group with Previous. Then click on the mask and with a black brush erase the blur, white brush adds blur back in.
http://www.pbase.com/image/40922770.jpg
More detailed instructions here: http://www.pbase.com/image/40922770.
Regards,
Bill

keystone wrote:
> Do these techniques work in Elements? I think I just have the first
> version, I have other photoshop versions but not currently on this
> computer.I can't seem to find a way to mask? Am I just overlooking
> the obvious somewhere?
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> Tribe_Yeti wrote:
> > Hi
> > Can someone guide me to a tutorial on how to apply selective GB to
> > a portrait of a lady. My wife doesn't seem very thrilled by the
> > sharpness of my lens :)
> > thanks
> > Pablo
> > --
> >
> > If you stay calm when the others lose their head it means you’re not
> > understanding the problem
>