I had been contacted a few months ago about writing a tutorial for a specific image.  While I do not pretend to know the exact steps that were taken to create the “Sorrow My Soul” image below, I can walk you through similar concepts and application so that you can get a handle on how to go about creating something similar.  What I did was create a tutorial, basically guessing on the exact steps and resources used, to generate a step-by-step guideline on how to achieve similar effects.

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• Sue Rubira – because her work is just wonderful to look at.

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Being a slave to information, local news, and the blogosphere in general, I owe my FeedReader a lot.  It works constantly to make me happy and keep me content.  There are so many sites publishing links to the latest and greatest and I try hard not to duplicate the efforts.  However, Faveup.com  is worth mentioning several times over.  Talk about a wonderful collection of logos!  I would not have known about them without reading about Miiingle  which I would not have known about had I not been reading Freelance Switch.