Process of creating an image for my Digipak

This is the original photo after I have increased the saturation and done some colouring affects to make the image look better for the audience, however, because this is an image I screenshot from my music video as I felt it captured what I wanted my album to be about, as well as allowing the audience to connect to it better, the image quality is lacking, so I tried to sharpen the image but it made the distortion increase, so I experimented with some of the things you can do on photoshop and discovered I could blur it. There were a range of different blurs I could use, and the ‘Guassain Blur’ worked the best, by using the bar I was able to increase and decrease the intensity of the blur. As you can see from the 3 screen shots I have taken, the one above is one that was in the least blurred, the one below, has the most amount of blur and the last image I have screenshot is the one I'm using, which has the middle amount of blur to it, I felt that this gives it the dreamy affect which matches the idea of the album, that is if fictional and a lot of the album is about her imagination, good and bad, which explains the facial expression she has.