I have the trial versions of Designer Pro X10 and Photo & Graphics Designer 10. For years I've been using PhotoImpact Pro 13, but it's an old app and has some bugs.
My hobby is to design & create original card-stock models of buildings for personal enjoyment and I need a program that can do what PhotoImpact does (even GIMP doesn't do what I need and I can't afford Adobe products).

Here are the main things I need software to do:
1: Be able to apply and freely resize patterns/textures in order to create seamless surfaces such as brick, siding, vertical wood slats, etc.
2: "Age" the surfaces by painting transparent colors over them.
3. Create model tabs by using rectangular boxes and then adding a perspective-like appearance.

Here is an example of a page from one of my projects demonstrating some of what I need an app to do...
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If you would like to see photos of some of my models, you can visit my web page at PacifierCafe at Weebly.com. (I couldn't get the forum link feature to work in this post).

Please let me know which Xara product will accomplish these things. So far I've been unable to understand how to get the two trial versions to do what I need.
Thanks for your help.