trialing Xara again, can I have a layer affecting only ONE layer below it?

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

Tallis, you create a distress image.

Select each PNG and in the Bitmap Gallery, right-click on the distress image and Apply as Transparency.
You than then change transparency type, repeat, position and scale individually or as a grouped application.

You can practice with Transparency > Fractal clouds or plasma instead of a Bitmap.

You don't work with the Layer as it your XDA is not a Photoshop clone.

Acorn

if you think of a xara group as a 'layer' it may help

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right-click on the distress image and Apply as Transparency.

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Is this somehow the distant cousin of "bitmap fill" and the fill tool? Or different animal?

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Originally Posted by Tallis

Is this somehow the distant cousin of "bitmap fill" and the fill tool? Or different animal?

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It is just Transparency > Bitmap.

Acorn