How to blur/darken a selected area?

Using PS Elements 11 I can easily selecte (quick selection tool or smart brush tool) an area of a photo that I want to adjust, but I'm adbsolutely stymied as to how to apply the adjustment I want to that selected area??? How do I do it??? I have the area selected (e.g. I've slected a very bright sunlit area of a photo) that I want to make darker ... how do it do that?
Or I've selected an area of a photo that, after using the composition tool, has a lot of serious jagged lines, and I want to blur/smooth that area ... I've tried every conceivalbe combination (max radius etc.) of the blur filter, but nothing seems to significantly blur the selected part of the image. I would have thought that, given a "maximum" blur "setting", it would be possible to blur a selected piece of image into a uniform monotone blend ... is that not possible?

For your first problem, I would suggest you to do the following:
Make a selection around the area you want to modify using selection tool ( quick selection/marquee selection tool), which I guess you have already done.
with the selection tool selected, right click the inside the selection and choose "layer via copy"
On the new created layer, you can apply adjustments. The adjusments are all clubbed under Enhance menu. For your particular need, I would suggest you to use Level correction from Enhance > Lightening> Levels
For your second problem, I would suggest you to use the blur tool around the jagged lines with appropriate settings. You can use the blur tool again and again over an area to increase the amount of blur applied

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