Celebrating Texture!

I recently stumbled upon Kim Klassen Café – a super website that celebrates texture.  Since I love using textures on my photos I felt right at home.  Each week the site hosts a challenge/link up.  This week the challenge was to incorporate at least one texture on a photo of a tea/coffee cup.  Although I am an avid tea drinker, I do not drink coffee.  I chose to photograph two special mugs – mugs my mom made for my kids – filled with warm, spicy chai tea.

Each shot was given a clean edit in both Adobe Camera Raw and Elements 9.  After the clean edit, I applied a different texture to each picture.  The details are as follows:

#1 – Texture:  Love … Soft light blending mode: 66% … Multiply blending mode: 54%

#2 – Texture:  Life is Good … Soft light blending mode: 45% … Color burn blending mode: 23% (brushed off the drink)

#3 – Texture:  Chamomile … Soft light blending mode: 48% … Color burn blending mode: 15% (brushed off drink)

#4 – Texture: Silence … Soft light blending mode: 45% … Color burn blending mode:  23% (again, brushed off drink)

As I glanced through the thumbnails of the other entrants, it was interesting to see all the different interpretations of the challenge.  If you want to take a look, visit Kim Klassen's Cafe.