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.
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