Taken with ambient light coming through a West facing window - no cropping. Post processing done in PSP 8 and included sharpening, color balance, contrast adjustment, burning and smudging.
Just for the record, I have no idea why this jpg was under 14 k after the upload. Obviously a slip between the cup and the lip - the jpg was 80 k at the time I uploaded it. Thanks for all the constructive comments. :)
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Try saving it at a higher .jpg quality. Your shot is only 13K -- you can go up as high as 150K. At this low quality, a lot of the shot is very, very pixelated.