Make photos pop - selective sharpening

I've done a little guide already once showing off selective sharpening, here's another good example.



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The background has a nice blur to it, but the bird needed to be sharpened.

here's the starting image with level adjustments already



And here is a layer with just the bird sharpened and everything else masked out



Then the lower layer is added back (to being visible) and you get the selectively sharpened image...