How to age a design - make it look a little worn?

[Toonicorn]

Hi again, gang. I need some advice. I want to take my Fire Tiger design and age it a bit - cracks, etc. The kind of thing you see on some t-shirt designs.



Is there a way to do that in Xara? I tried downloading a program called Filter Forge into my PS elements 13, but I got an error message about not having a window handle, whatever that is. Any advice? Thanks!

[Boy]

You could try to use one or more grunge overlay textures and then experiment with different blend modes in the Transparency Tool, perhaps removing certain parts with the Eraser Tool. Search on Google 'grunge overlay texture' and you'll find quite a few. There are even a few in the built-in Content Catalog.

[gwpriester]

Here's are two very old Xara Xone Workbook tutorials http://archive.xaraxone.com/webxealo...k24/page_3.htm http://archive.xaraxone.com/webxealo...k03/page_3.htm

[Chris M]

A few overlays/textures as Boy suggests to give you a visual idea.

[Acorn]

If there's still a free Filter Forge v7 being offered, use that. An unimaginable number of filter that can be modified or created:



Acorn