128255; [MENTION=8332]samyeung46[/MENTION]; Thanks! Still nowhere as polished as the others, but I'm tinkering here and there seeing what I can do.
I had a few other chop-shop renders, but Gunner was the easiest (and I was getting impatient, lol). The older sig's girl was drawn at a very high resolution, so when it got compressed to fit requirements it turned out looking rather poor. I used an exclusion blend mode with gold stroke on the text; the original unmodified was nice, difference seemed better, but exclusion (as you agreed) just clicked. I'm hoping to find a few new methods for the next one.