Gimpdome

Thanks for the comments everyone and, darth, thanks for the font link.  Currently downloading it!

Fixed

very nice,detailed easy enough to follow

That one, is cool as shrizit.

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Sorry for the double, but does anyone think this might work with a render as well? Need to try it.

Darth, I never could locate the flag texture that was used in the 3D text program to create my "Fencepost - An American Original" sig.  However, I just downloaded a flag and gave it my best shot.  It's not perfect, but hey, we're using a 2D program!   



The only real difference to create this was I bumped mapped the flag layer using much smaller bump map settings.  One flag layer was bumped using the black and white layer and the other flag layer with a plain white text layer.  Be careful about using too high of depth settings in the bump map.  You'll end up getting the edges too dark.   Mine never looked right when that happened, so I backed way off the depth and played with the ambient setting a bit.  Maybe the bump map can be done after changing the perspective.  At least you'll know what you're getting.  To give this particular font a sharper edge, I did an Alpha to Selection on the top text layer, created a new layer, filled it with black, shrunk it by one pixel, deleted the innards, dropped the opacity, and set the layer to Hard Light.

What do you think?

Art

The reflection is really easy.  Nothing to it.

Turn off everything, but the text layers (shadows, etc.)
Go to Image | Merge visible layers (Select Cropped to Image or something like that.  I think it was the middle one)
Copy the resulting layer to the clipboard.
Undo your Merge layers step (Edit | Undo)
Paste the clipboard contents into the image and anchor it to its own layer.
Drag new layer to the very bottom of the stack, use the arrow key to move it down until you get it where you want, and drop the opacity. (I set my opacity to 35/Normal Mode)

Pretty neat, eh?!