Photo manipulation (Advert)

I wanted to keep the image of my advert very natural looking and real, as this is something that represents my artist, therefore i didnt want to over edit the image. All i decided to do for now is create focus within the image so my artist becomes the most eye catching within it.

I started off with the image as it was:

I then duplicated the layer and added the Gassuian blur effect  to blur the whole image, making it out of focus:

Next, i used the magnetic lasso tool to select myself within the image as it made sure the cut was really smooth and allowed me to be really precise:

I then deleted what i had selected so the background image, that was normal, came through, making myself clear within the image and creating focus:

Here is the final image:

I Then realised that the c9olours look really dull, therefore saturated the image to make it brighter: