The last couple of headers that I've had were made using 'regular' photos that I converted with a Japanese 'old photo generator' and then further fiddled around with in PhotoFiltre, a Photoshop-like-thingy that Eric installed (because it was free, of course.) I usually jack the contrast up and then add a border and text.

Unfortunately, my love of blurry/soft-focus photos does not work all that well with the Japanese generator, so I have to look through a lot of pics, for ones with good strong lines.

I've been fighting the flu/bad cold/urinary tract infections/kidney infections for two and half months now (which is why posting has been so light) and playing around with these photos is about the only thing I could muster up. It's not that difficult and that's what I needed :-)

Japanese generator here. I don't remember where I found it -- another blog -- and I'm sorry for that, as I like to give credit where credit is due. It was sometime in the early glassy feverish days of September.