what I understand from your text and page is that you want to show the flag inside the letters. If that is what you want then you can do it through masking. Just put the flag in the background, insert another another White layer, select black as your foreground color, select the text tool, write your title with black color. If you are using a 2.x version of GIMP, cut the text [layer] that GIMP has just inserted, add a layer mask to the white layer you previously added on top of the flag background, select the mask by left clicking on it in the layers dialog and select paste to put the CUTted text on the white layer. Because of the full black color of the text, the flag would show through from inside the letters. Now you can save your selection to a channel by selecting _Save to Channel_ from the _Select_ menu to ensure you can recover your original selection if you mess up the selection. Now add or subtract selections the way you want. if you want to move your pasted selection, you can as this time it has been pasted not as a text layer but as a selection and you can select/de-select the way you like.

Hope I correctly understood your problem.

Regards

Asif Lodhi

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what I understand from your text and page is that you want to show the flag inside the letters. If that is what you want then you can do it through masking. Just put the flag in the background, insert another another White layer, select black as your foreground color, select the text tool, write your title with black color. If you are using a 2.x version of GIMP, cut the text [layer] that GIMP has just inserted, add a layer mask to the white layer you previously added on top of the flag background, select the mask by left clicking on it in the layers dialog and select paste to put the CUTted text on the white layer. Because of the full black color of the text, the flag would show through from inside the letters. Now you can save your selection to a channel by selecting _Save to Channel_ from the _Select_ menu to ensure you can recover your original selection if you mess up the selection. Now add or subtract selections the way you want. if you want to move your pasted selection, you can as this time it has been pasted not as a text layer but as a selection and you can select/de-select the way you like.

Hope I correctly understood your problem.

Regards

Asif Lodhi

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