Let's Try GIMP! Lesson 8: Scaling & Layer Order

Now, one thing that is easily overlooked but VERY important is layer order--that is, the top-to-bottom "locations" of all of the layers, which affects literally everything about an image. In GIMP, the order is displayed over in the "Layers, Channels, Paths & Undo" box.

I'm going to mess with the layer order to make it appear as though there is an image on Kingpin's shirt.

In this case, you can see that the layers displayed are, top-to-bottom: Pants, Orange Symbol, and Kingpin himself.
Orange Symbol is looking a tad big for my purposes, so I'm going to scale it down. This step has been addressed previously, in Lesson 6.

Next, I create a new layer above Kingpin.

Because it's above him, I can Paint it orange with the Paintbrush tool, and it goes on over him. However, because it's a new layer, it doesn't "stick to" him, and could be deleted or moved if I needed to do so.

Next, I use the Quick Mask tool (covered in Lesson 7) to select a chunk of Kingpin's coat, ending at the lapels.

I copy and paste it as a new layer, again as shown in Lesson 7.

 So now that's hanging up in the corner.

Now, as you can see, the orange symbol hangs out to the sides of Kingpin's lapels in a manner not dissimilar to that of one of Flavor Flav's clocks.

Luckily, I have my Lapel layer above it, so I can tuck it all in neatly!