Hi, I'm a very infrequent user of Xara (although I faithfully upgrade all the time!) and I'm having a very senior moment getting myself tied in knots trying to retouch a bitmap.

Basically, I want to be able to do two things - select a small irregular area of the photo and use it as a brush to paint over an area. To be more exact, I want to replace the soil area at the bottom of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album cover with the dark brown soil background bitmap and then pick up the flower pattern to replace 'Beatles' with different text. I thought this would be straightforward with Xara's bitmap and brush facilities, but I can't get started.

I feel I've done this before a long time back - admittedly, maybe not in Xara - but can't for the life of me figure out how to go about it.

Help!