Altered Flowers

I had taken this picture close to a year ago in the height of Spring.
The original colours were simple yellows and whites. When it came time for me to
design and put together my own portfolio, I found this picture and thought I would spice it up a bit.

First of all, I used the Color Balance tool to modify the original palette of yellow and white, to a
brilliant blue and purple. Next, I used a Gaussian Blur effect to soften the picture. To finish the
picture off, I used some blur effects to bring more emphasis on the three flowers closest to the camera, by blurring the remaining background elements. I chose to use this picture because it was one of my earliest photographs, and I wanted to illustrate how you can take a simple, so-so picture, and turn it into something vibrant.