To create the background stripes for your image, open a new image with
Background=white, Height=16, Width=1. With the paint brush tool fill it half way down (8
pixels) with red, and leave the rest white. 
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| Open a new image to fit your text with a black background (or anyother
color except white). Apply your text, then flood fill it with settings; Fill Style=pattern
and under options choose the pattern that you made in the above step. |
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| With the selection tool select a rectangle of your image in the upper
left hand corner. Now Edit/Copy then Edit/Paste As New Image. |
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| Now with the magic wand tool select all of the black background then
choose Selections/Invert. Now the text should be selected. With the flood fill tool
settings; Fill Style=solid color select the foreground color as blue. |
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| With the paintbrush tool size=1 to 2 pixels make the white stars. |
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| Again Edit/Copy. On your full text image, Edit/Paste As Transparent
Image (Make sure your background is selected as black), line up the blue portion so it
covers the stripe area. |
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| If you have Filter Factory B filter (Fluttering Flag) you could make
this into an animation. |
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