Nicu’s How-to published an interesting tutorial about creating a Polaroid effect from a digital photo involving basic operations like layer and canvas management, drop shadows, selection move and rotation, and distort filters.
There are other tutorials where I covered various techniques of photo enhancement and manipulation, but there are times when you want more bling, something that makes a photo really stand out and such a cool looking trick is the Polaroid effect which we will explore step by step, trying to learn some more things about GIMP in the process.