This weekend was lavender festival all over Oregon. I took my Mom out to the Applegate Valley where we took in four lavender farms before we got too tired and hungry to continue. This particular farm had an antique store as well so I managed to capture the best of both worlds. The minute I saw the raw image I knew it cried out for texturing. I started by cropping a little to focus on the trunk. I continued by using content aware fill and clone stamping to eliminate some ugly table legs. Then I added a smart sharpen and noise reduction filter in Photoshop. I then took the lavender picture into Nik Color Efex Pro for a detail extractor, brilliance/warmth, and darken/lighten center treatment. I then selected a texture and reduced it’s saturation some brought it into the lavender picture and resized to fit. I then experimented with blending modes and opacity. I masked out the texture over the lavender and chest lid. I can see now I should have gone a little further with masking on the chest wall but it was going so dark I didn’t like it. I finished by adding a warming filter which helped to tie everything together. I’ll give myself a B+ on this one due to the glitch on the masking. But hey, I’m still new at this texturing stuff.