My interpretation:
I'm not happy with the file size, 72.86 KB PNG... but the JPEG bleed in the red text was too great for me to be happy with even a 100% quality JPEG. Easily worked around (don't use red text
) but I wanted to keep in the spirit of the original.
I added a cropped piece of the sky from
http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/elemen...Grove_2of2.jpg which I had already resized to 1024x768 (my current desktop wallpaper, heh) and as such fit the 150 pixel high image better.
I also removed the Vanguard logo, I couldn't find a way to fit it in without the image seeming cluttered, so I added your tag line in an 8 point bitmap font, the same one I used for the Sun Tsu quotes when I made some EQ2 sigs. The 1 pixel wide stroke around the outside helps make it look less "pixely", it looks REALLY good with a black stroke too, but again I wanted to keep to the spirit of the original.
Looking at it myself after I'd typed the above, I notice that the light sources don't match background to foreground - I might fix that...