Blur and Sharpen Tool

With the image below I was asked to create a depth of field to made a large area look like a macro photograph. I blured the back-ground and fore-ground and sharpened up the mid-ground.

This is the original image:

This is the edited result:

 I used a 180px brush for the blur tool to blur the back-ground and fore-ground with 75% strength the a 40% strength for the edges of the blur. I sharpened the mid-ground using a 149px brush with 35% strength. I also used image auto-tone the auto-colour then cropped the right and bottom edge slightly.