[Completing the family portrait: inserting a face into a larger picture]

Argh - stay inside!  Thanks again ... from tropical Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, where most days are at least 25°C.  But no skiing, no skating, no hockey - and no polar bears.

[Completing the family portrait: inserting a face into a larger picture]

Thanks *so much*, TR - that's great!  Hope the Polar Vortex isn't hitting your part of Illinois too hard - best to stay inside at the computer!

 

Laura

[Completing the family portrait: inserting a face into a larger picture]

here is the face that needs to be inserted into the larger picture.

[Completing the family portrait: inserting a face into a larger picture]

I am a newbie seeking HELP from more seasoned Paint.net users!

 

This past summer my widowed mother got everyone in the family home EXCEPT me, and they took a great candid picture in front of the fireplace (attached here). 

 

They left a space for a picture of me to be inserted (you'll see that just to the left of my Mom, in the bright blue shirt, there is a person-sized gap.

 

I have an appropriately sized picture of myself (which I will attach in my next post) that I want to insert in this picture so I can print it out and frame it for my Mom's b-day on february 7th ...

 

... BUT I have spent 12 hours wrestling with Paint and just cannot get it done.

 

Can anyone help me?  ideally, by taking these two images and combining them as I have tried and failed to do, and maybe sharing the step-by-step with me?

 

the WHOLE family would love it if you can help me

 

thanks

finishing up my 'plea for help', here's the other image that I am trying to insert into the larger one