Ow

Remember how I said, the day after Tuesday's class (the one with 75 pushups and 300 crunches) that I wasn't particularly sore, and I wondered if the soreness would show up the next day?

Yeah. Well. It did.

Ow.

Looking for technical digital editing advice

I posted this at the soulcollaging community and then figured, what the heck, I might as well post it here, too. There are more people reading this journal than that one at the moment who might actually be able to answer the question:

Okay, here's a question particular for those of you who are experienced at manipulating digital images.

What I really want to do in making a Community card for Fiona is this: I took her to the dojo and took a whole bunch of pictures of her spinning and kicking, in her birthday dress, using the mirror to capture reflections (Fiona LOVES to spin; she's done it for years). I want to layer the images, but I don't know how/don't have a program that will extract the images of just her figure and then layer them, transparently. I tried to do it with a very crude photo editing program I have, but it was very crude, trying to manually erase pixels, and extremely tedious, and the outlines are all blurring.

Anyway, these are a couple of the images I am starting with (and I have several others I'd like to layer in):

( Fiona spinning )

and

( Fiona spinning 2 )

This is my crude mock up first attempt. Anyone have any ideas of a program or technique I can use to achieve the effect I want to achieve?

( Rough draft of Fiona's soulcollage card )

(And apropos of nothing, isn't she damn beautiful?)