You probably already know this too, but you can do some tricks like this with the History Brush too. One way would be to blur the entire picture until you have the amount of blur you want in the areas you want it, then go to the History palette and click the previous state to return the picture to an un-blurred condition. Then click the check box next to the line in the palette for the blurred state to set it as the source for the History Brush. Set the opacity settings to a fairly high number and brush in the blurred state wherever you want it. I do this kind of thing all the time to remove posterization in pictures I'm trying to enhance. Gromit