You’d first need to set up a child theme, so your tweaks won’t be overwritten when updating the theme. Here are some guides in case you haven’t made one before:
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Child_Themes
http://op111.net/53/
http://vimeo.com/49770088
Once your child theme is set up, make a copy of header.php from the parent theme and place it in your child theme folder.
Add an image tag referencing your header graphic between lines 53 & 54:
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<div class="sunstrip"></div>
So it’ll look something like this:
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
<img id="mynewheader" src="http://path/to/your/image.png" alt="your alt text">
<div class="sunstrip"></div>
If you want to apply some margin above or below your new header, you can apply CSS to this ID in your child theme’s stylesheet: #mynewheader
Excellent! Thanks for the help