[photoshop-beginners] Help with Removing Background

Help! I recently got PhotoShop CS4 and am about to use it to change two photos for a friend. The version I had before was Version 7!!! It's also been a long time sinc I have used PhotoShop and I am not sure what I have to do to erase the background and leave the single figure in the foreground. The photos are of a friend's daughter but there are people in the background. She asked me to erase all the background and put a fuzzy edge around her daughter. Can you help?

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