What your final image can look like.With these instructions, you can give a mediocre image a new life by using some visual and graphical slight of hand in GIMP to give it some POP!
Edit Steps
- 1Add a transparent layer on top of your image and a background layer at the bottom.
Add transparent layer - 2Make a rectangular selection on the transparent layer about the size of the desired frame and fill it with white.
Make a rectangular selection - 3Shrink the selection (Select - Shrink, about 15 pixels).
Shrink selection - 4Clear the content (Edit - Cut).
Clear content - 5Make a rectangular selection around the frame and use the perspective tool (Shift+P). Deform it as you like.
Make another selection - 6Delete the parts of the frame which cover your subject, the result should look something like this.
Delete parts of the frame - 7Erase the background of the photo (use what you like: mask, eraser, lasso, magic wand, just make sure the photo layer has an alpha channel).
Erase the background - 8Add a subtle drop-shadow (Script-Fu - Shadow - Drop-Shadow) to make the frame look more realistic.
Add a drop shadow - 9Add, if needed, some shadows to parts of your subject popping out on top of the frame.
Add, if needed, some shadows to parts of your subject popping out on top of the frame. - 10For even more realism, make the paper less flat using iWarp (Filters -Distorts - iWarp):
For even more realism, make the paper less flat using iWarp (Filters -Distorts - iWarp):.-
The result should look like:
Image so far
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- 11Adjust the shadows to fit the deformed image.
Adjust shadows - 12Crop the image as needed.
Crop your image - 13Leave the picture transparent, with a solid background or with a textured one, just as you like. In this example, a stone pattern from GIMP was used and the perspective of its layer was adjusted.
Leave picture transparent
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Edit Sources and Citations
- howto.nicubunu.ro - Tutorial written by Nico, who licensed this content with Creative Commons.
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