Just started practicing gimp. Used to use photofiltre (not photoshop). Is there a way for me to instantly position a copy/pasted image onto a specific area of a background image, like center or bottom right or left center? To access this in photofiltre, I had to go to "manual settings" and position the copied image with a 3x3 graph that let me select one area.

You can use GIMP's Align tool to align layers, but if you have a particular place to insert layer, you can paste you source layer over the base in GIMP and just move the pasted layer where you like.

You literally didn't explain anything I needed. Find out what the manual settings are in Photofiltre before you assume you know what I want. Only the descriptive way of Photofiltre can center it at the bottom and adjust in the way I want so far, and I need to know if there's a Gimp alternative.

That is pretty rude Pimp. Lyle was just trying to help you. Please do not assume people at a Gimp Forum know about Photofiltre or will check it out to answer your question!

To answer this Gimp question you have to fully understand another program just to get the question in context?

I like this approach. Can I pay you a huge amount of virtual playdough to help you filter-out people who fail to achieve your stringent parameters?

When you paste in Gimp, if there is selection, the pasted image is centered in the selection.

Otherwise, the paste operation creates a temporary layer ("Floating selection") that you can move/rotate/scale before you merge it into the target (aka "Anchoring" with "Layer > Anchor layer" (Crtrl-H), even though it is usually better to keep it on its own layer ("Layer > To new layer" (Ctrl-Shift-N)).

To move things easily against the edges of the image, you can enable "View > Snap to canvas edges".

PhotoFiltre has been around a long time, Better than M$ Paint but a bit quirky in use. There is a free version.

For Gimp as Lyle's post using the align tool. see: https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-tool-align.html

and a 45 second demo animation https://i.imgur.com/aiDAD1K.mp4

You're lucky people are still answering you after this.

It actually looks like this, and Lyle gave the answer.



...but, yes You come on a forum and request help, you should provide the required information.
Otherwise try reddit

I gave all the information. I verbally laid it out in detail, 3x3 grid and everything.