Selectively sharpening the in-focus areas of an image

Now that we've discussed these different types of sharpening, unsharpened…mask, smart sharpen, and high-pass, it raises the question what type of…sharpening is best?…Well, this is really based upon personal preference.…In my own workflow the sharpening that I use most is Smart Sharpen and whenever…I use any of these sharpening techniques, typically I do this selectively.…So let's take a look at how we can do that with this image.…Now if we zoom in a little bit on the picture, you can see that she is sharp and…in focus and the background is out of focus.…

Therefore I don't want to sharpen everything;…rather I just want to sharpen that which is in focus.…I want to selectively sharpen a particular area of the image.…Well, in order to do that I'll go ahead and copy this Background layer, press…Command+J on the Mac, Ctrl+J on Windows.…I'm going to name this new layer Smart Sharpen.…Next I'm going to select the Quick Select tool by pressing the W key or by…clicking on the tool in the tools panel.…Here I'm going to make a selection over the area of the image which is sharp,…