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.
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
It is only for visual purposes so if there is a way that doesn't take up as much memory as the power clip that would be great. I didn't really understand the PP way because I am still a novice. This was what I got thank you Paul.
As Paul explains... and some added effects.
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.