Hi guys, back from a long time ago, hobbyist, giving designer another try, love the ability to handle raster like no other designer app can (I think ! )

Quick question - volunteered to do a movie poster type thing for a school sports team, have png cutouts of players on a page with 6-7 other layers (text, "paper fold texture", background sports graphics, and a main 'players' layer (imported PNG cutouts that I made).

I want to add a texture to 'distress' only the players layer -- like some industrial noise or speckle or whatnot-- so the black and white PNGs dont look so clean (fake)

Can I/how do I make the distressed texture layer (which I will apply some transparency to, don't know which one yet) affect only the player layer, and not any other layer in the piece? (not the background, not the text, etc)

Thank you for any tips