I am trying to figure out how to create a distressed look for some type.

I purchased a great book, Photoshop 7 Down and Dirty Tricks by S. Kelby. In it he describes how to make distressed text. It is basically a distressed mask applied to block text. I believe there is a way to do this in Xara but I have not figured it out. I am trying to create a bitmap mask of stress marks in a paint program, trace it in Xara, join it into one object and then combine it over a block text using the subtract shapes.

I was wondering if a distressed technique for Xara had already been discussed. Any help would be appreciated.

Dan