Thank you for responding (and the compliment). In the time since I posted this I somehow got it to work by adding a black background layer at the very bottom and masking the layers with the static footage under the artwork. No idea why it decided to work now when I tried that before but I’m not complaining lol.

It’s not pictured but the text is layered above the artwork. I think I ended up doing what you suggested, but what do you mean by setting it to ‘straight’?