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.
There is always the option to use a "Clip Mask" in PhotoPaint. You can use any downloaded image off the net or your own for the transparency.
Another alternative, working from CorelDRAW, but converting a copy of the vector motif to a bitmap and then applying a clipmask (from a grayscale or B/W "distress" image). I made a quick video to show you. Had to keep this small to keep the file size down, but I think you can see everything needed.
Note...when I load my grayscale distress image in Photo-Paint, I point the cursor over the image and press Enter on my keyboard. This centers the mask over the image.
Patti