Lauren E Poole wrote:
There's this photo.  I like it, but there was a theme to it about wearing a mask.  I simply want to blend in the skin tone on most of my face to the rest of my face.  In the photo, there were pieces of tape going around to resemble the mask.  That's what I want out.  Can someone (I) do something like this not knowing anything about photo editing?  Also, what FREE software could I use?

That's sounds a little like "can someone who has never sat behind the wheel and knows nothing about it drive a FREE car starting from an unknown point to a destination never visited?" We all know what may happen someone tries this.

Obviously in imaging it is not as dangerous but in any case if one doesn't know anything about photo editing the first step is to learn. You can learn either by experimenting or by gathering some knowledge and then applying it. Either way theory and practice have to meet at a certain point.

Re. software: Instead of wasting time to learn how to use a crippled tool like Gimp you may better spend $50 for something like Affinity Photo which has almost everything which Photoshop has, quite a lot of videos on how to use its tools and they have their own forum where you can ask questions.

Or... if the idea is just to have one particular image edited instead of learning for a driver license you may take a taxi.