I've seen what seems like 3000 tuorials ( ok, maybe a few less) of using these tools in that other program to accomplish an edgy and starker feels to parts of an image, a big part of the tool of wedding, fashion, and other graphics people. It gives a street-y feel, a grundge look, a look that mimics fiilters used by some cutting-edge photogs, and basically allows you to selectively affect limited parts of the image, bit by bit.

What is the equivalent workaround in Xara? Which pay- or free- plugin can be used to do this to an imported image? Is there a way to juryrig this effect using on-board xara tools?

thanks