Challenge

Here is a challenging exercise, without much in the way of instructions, to give you a little more practice before you set begin creating original works of art...

What do you think of the first picture below, taken in a market in Vietnam? I think it's not bad, but I find the background ugly and distracting. To focus attention on the woman, can you blur out the background, as in the second photo? (Carefully select the background, then apply a 'Gaussian blur', Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur.)