Creating a Gaussian Blur layer to mask?

[Gene27167201cqus]

Hi is there a way to do this?

Such that it isnt a destructive workflow and i can mask out certain areas i wanted blurred only?

As well as adjust the blurs strength as i go, similar to a adjument layer like brightness contrast.

[Semaphoric]

If the image is a Smart Object, making a selection, then running Gaussian Blur, will localize the blur to the selection, which you can relocate with the Move tool, and you can alter the parameters as a Smart Filter.