Adding a distressed look using Xara?

[gwpriester]

Actually Fractal Plasma with some Profile adjustments works very well. If I were to do that tutorial again today I would use this method.

[Egg Bramhill]

Here's my attempt.

[gwpriester]

Now that is really distressing Egg.

[Albacore]

I find if I see a free bit with the distressed texture that you like, ---> bring it in either a new page or new layer. Then use the vector trace in the Utilities menu ---> then knock it back using transparencies.
I just remembered the last on I did I used the new art brush's to do the distressing and bugger me I can't find it this morning did and edit with the spacing. It worked well.

[Holger]

Very helpful for me some years ago, especially the grunge brushes form Xcellent with download option) and the belonging 7-step tutorial.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...-Vector-Shapes

[Albacore]

I use the vector method. When I get a bitmap that I think might be good to use as the distressing I bring it in as a bitmap then do an "image Trace", ungroup the resulting trace and remove the white rectangle from the back. Group what I have left and place it over the area you want to distress. Normally I only use this on either the background or the foreground.
The reason I use vector shapes is that if you're doing T shirts using separations you can get funny effects just with "fractal clouds" with transparencies when you export it.
Here how they do it in Illustrator http://retrovectors.com/tutorials/ad...e-illustrator/