[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

I have Gimp, but my god that program seems complicated.

I want to put an image (sans background) on top of the blue image attached.

I use Acorn (a Mac-only editor), which has a really nice tutorial website which should be generally applicable to the Gimp (since they've mostly got the same basic toolsets).

I think these pages will be of most use to you (their site seems a bit slow to load today, so patience may be required):

• Layer Mask Examples Using Magic Wand (the 1st one with putting the starfish on the boat seems to be basically what you want)
• Compositing Photos has a few more advanced tricks
• Different Ways to Remove a Background
• Layer Masks (a sort of basic "what can you do with them", which kind of shows how it's generally more flexible to use masks instead of just erasing stuff directly from the image)

Also, The League of Movable Type has some very nice free fonts with generous open usage licenses, designed by mostly professional typographers in their spare time, if you're interested.