As to method. The problem is noise in the background and the owl is dark and not as sharp as it could be. A normal approach to noise reduction would soften the owl even more. So using only PaintShop Pro.

Select the magic wand and across the top there is a menu related to the wand. "Tolerance" determines whether you are selecting just one colour and shade or perhaps a few variations. In this case the number should be set at about 5.

Click anywhere in the blue area and if the dotted moving line encloses the whole blue area great. If not, it may surround some of the blue background. If this is the case, hold down the shift key, while at the same time clicking the mouse in the area not surrounded, until all the blue area is outlined.

Then go to the eye dropper icon on the left side. Click to pick up the icon and click on any area of blue. Go back to the left and down toward the bottom is the paint can icon (FILL) Pick up the icon and move it to the enclosed (with the dotted line) blue area and click. It will fill up the background with the same blue colour ONLY without the noise.

In SELECTION which is top left icon, chose the irregular rope icon. Go to the inside area of the owl, click and draw a rough irregular shape close to but not on the edge of the owl. (You are sort of outlining the owl but from INSIDE its shape, completely around.) You now should have the moving dotted line which indicates a new selection.

Go to the pull down menu at the top (Adjust) and under sharpness there is unsharp mask. Click on it and a sub menu comes up. In that menu check LUMINANCE ONLY and a radius of about 2. Strength can be fine tuned according to what you see in the preview screen, or left at the default.
Chose OK at the bottom and sharpness is done.

There is also on the left about the middle an ICON that allows you to use a brush for sharpening, softening, burning, dodging etc. You may want to use that to selectively improve brightening, sharpening etc.

One eye was very blurred, so I went to the select menu changed rectangle to circle and clicked to select the left eye. In edit at the top I chose COPY and PASTE as new selection. I then used the mouse to move a copy of the left eye over to the right and after a click, I dropped it there for a further improvement.

Tegan