Jesus you have to go back really far to find a flash, now I feel kind of bad. non bat related DC characters really don't spring to my head when i'm picking piecesi guess, which I suppose is why it's good I kind of haphazardly enter these artists battles...
I always think of Flash as wally west. it's probably age related since wally was the flash for most of my formative/adult(ish) years until recently when they brough Barry back.
Hmm, that's interesting; I can see why. I guess for me it's the opposite, seeing as I'm still a teenager and the comics I read have usually start off with Barry as the Flash. I do like Wally better though.
You could ask but i don't think I could explain it in this small a space It's photoshop with my somewhat bastardized version of "cut & grad" with some pretty basic PS filter work to add the background and the glows and what not.