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My Photoshop knowlege is limited and I only need to use it for a few things.  In CS4 I was able to select a small area of an image with the selection tool.  I would then go into 'Refine Edge' and feather the selection.  Then I would go into filters and apply a gaussian blur to the selection.  That's all I wanted/want to do.

But in CS6 it is not a simple process anymore and I've spent hours over weeks trying to figure this out, and I've googled it, etc. 

Some of the things that are happening are that the selection I make either disappears when I've been into Refine Edge to choose my settings.  Or I get a message saying 'no pixels are selected'.  Or when I come out of Refine Edge the selection has descreased, changed shape and doesn't incorporate the exact area I wished to apply the blur to. 

Please can someone help.  What I find most helpful is a step-by-step instruction - eg: 1.  Do this   2. Do that.  3. Then...

Thanks so much in anticipation!

Sassie