Daisy Daisy Give Me Your Answer Do
This image is titled after a song written in 1892, often sung to me when I was a child by my mother and grandmother:
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I’m half crazy all for the love of you.
It won’t be a stylish marriage.
I can’t afford a carriage.
But you’ll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
For this image, I wanted to experiment with the blur effect in Photoshop. I wanted it to look like there were streaks of energy or light shooting out radially from the prominent daisy about a third of the way in from the left.
Daisy Layers
The bottom layer is the original image.
Above that is a Blur Layer where I have applied a radial blur smart filter. This layer has a mask that is painted black in areas where I want the shape of a daisy to not be blurred.
The top layer is a curves layer to adjust tones to make the “important” daisies look brighter than their surrounding foliage.
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