March 14, 2008

Turn a digital photo into Polaroid with GIMP

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.

Quotation.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.

Turn a digital photo into Polaroid with GIMP.

Read the tutorial.

del.icio.us Reddit Digg Facebook Technorati Google Furl Yahoo Bloglines Bookmark.it Spurl

No Comments»

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. | TrackBack URI
You can also bookmark this on del.icio.us or check the cosmos

Leave a comment

XHTML ( You can use these tags): <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong> .