to suck or not to suck . . .

it was a sucky morning and all it took was a well meaning hug from someone i had not seen since the 9TS departed the cave.  tears still sneak up when least expected.

but, i found a new tutorial which made me go running to see how fast i could fire up my CS4 and then the day got unsucky:

isn't this a cool technique???  the tut can be found here.