Odd question - can GIMP do it?

[freebird54]

I have a problem - I am NOT an artist. However, I *DO* like to play around with images sometimes. I am not a Photoshop guy, nor a Gimp guy - at least not yet. Is there some kind of alternative for someone who is more used to doing things the hard way?

Most of my 'digital manipulation' experience came on the Amiga - wih the wonderful (for the time) DeluxePaint programs. Does anything out there give one the same brush functionality? It could take any selection, from any pic, and use it as a brush on any other pic. You could do what apparently channel ops do, without having a specific matched size to do it with - even text.

I know - too old fashioned for words. So - assuming I'm SOL on that, can anyone aim me at a tutorial for getting a piece of 1 pic integrated into another easily? (say, a logo onto an existing work?)

Thanks in advance!