Gimp question

[JessiSweeney]

I'm putting together a likeness of a SZYM police car from my town. It involves identical patterns on both sides of the vehicle.

I need to create a stencil of one side and reverse it to apply to the other side.

Not only would it save some major headache in reproduction, but seems to be the easiest way to go about it..

So I guess my question is: how do I create a stencil in Gimp?

 

EDIT:

Thanks Rolig.

I'm not too concerned with lettering, but with paint scheme. It involves straight lines and radials. Have always been terrible with creating a radius. Lettering comes last.

I'll follow up your suggestions. Thanks again.

 

[Rolig Loon]

That's a two-part question.  First of all, you need to create an image with no background, so that the lettering or logo or whatever is all that you see in the final application.  For that, you'll need to be sure that you can save the image as a 32-bit TGA or PNG file. Read http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-separate.html

Unless you really want the lettering on the opposite side of the car to read backwards, you're all done.  If you really do want the other side opf the car to have a reversed image, though, you can reverse it by simply flipping it >>> http://docs.gimp.org/2.8/en/gimp-tutorial-quickie-flip.html