OK how do I fix the background in PS?

I shot this pic on a white muslin background and as you can see I wasn't able to get enough light on it to blow it out and I was too close to blur it out and it has wrinkles, etc. etc.

I just got cs5 and so far have only learned how to really screw up a marginal picture. Can someone walk me through the steps to, I guess, cut the model out and paste her on another background? Or maybe just fuzz out the existing background so it is less distracting? Is there a 3 minute process to fix this?

Thanks.

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Well...The three-minute fix would be to select the subject, invert the selection so that only the backdrop is now selected, and apply the Surface Blur filter. Based on the strength of the filter applied you can smooth most, if not all, of the wrinkles. You'd also get the additional benefit of reducing the shadows cast by the subject.

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Seamus69 wrote in post #12150267
I shot this pic on a white muslin background and as you can see I wasn't able to get enough light on it to blow it out and I was too close to blur it out and it has wrinkles, etc. etc.

I just got cs5 and so far have only learned how to really screw up a marginal picture. Can someone walk me through the steps to, I guess, cut the model out and paste her on another background? Or maybe just fuzz out the existing background so it is less distracting? Is there a 3 minute process to fix this?

Thanks.

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Thanks for taking the time to help. Here is what I ended up with and it took more than a few minutes. What I have learned is that PS is a very complex beast. Almost as complicated as women (to me). I also learned that my macbook pro screen where I did the work is much hotter than my dell screen at work. Go figure.

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