I am somewhat new to this program I can do some things but obviously not enough. I have a two color image I want to lay a distress pattern over and "burn it" in to the two colors so that I can put it over any image and the distress is transparent. I don't want to just make the distress the background color I already know how to do that. Any help would be great thanks.
Hmm... I guess I didn't understand. I think you can add images by hitting the 'Use Rich Formatting' button.
This new design of the forums is a little confusing compared to the old one. A bit of a nuisance really, and I don't like it...
If you look close towards the bottom left the distress pattern is in vector format and I attempted to make it the same color as the the shirt. The problem is that the shirt in the background is an actual image and I was trying to lay the 3 color vector over top to show what it would look like. So what I need is for the distress pattern to either be "burned" into the vector image or be transparent after it goes thru the vector.
Then it becomes whatever color the distress was. I need it transparent.
This is what happens here. Please excuse the crudeness of the 'distress pattern', background and 'logo' but I only had a few minutes to put this together and it's only an example of what I had in mind. OTOH perhaps I've misunderstood you completely...
Works here
If this is for demo purposes to show how it looks on different color tees, you could set it up in Photo-Paint and use a Clipping Mask.
In this example I exported the layered motif from CorelDRAW as a CPT, w/ transparent background and maintaining the layers.
In PP I imported the .cpt into a current image where I already had set up separate layers with various t-shirt samples. When you import the .cpt, it comes in with a white layer beneath the others, just delete this.
Select the motif layers and group. Go to Mask>Load>Load from disk and open a grayscale of your distress image. Point the cursor over the image and hit Enter on you keyboard to add the mask to the image -- you'll see the marching ants.
Select the motif group on the Object docker, right-click, choose Create Clip Mask>From Mask. You should now be able to see the tee through the motif layers. You can hide/show the different t-shirt layers now to see how they look.
I don't know of a way to do this in CorelDRAW other than what Paul has already demonstrated.
Patti