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How To Use GIMP To Make Your Photos Pop Using A Great 3D Effect

In order to make learning this technique easier, it is best to start with a photo that has a distinct main object and a background that has a minimum amount of clutter. These properties will be very helpful in the later parts of this 3D effect project using GIMP.

After you have opened your main photo, create a new layer. This new layer will be your background layer. You can change the layer color or you can leave it as white. Now create a third layer.

Make this a transparent layer because this will be used as the frame. You can then arrange your layers. Arrange them with the background layer as the bottom layer, the main image as the middle layer, and the frame as the top layer.

Next step is to make the frame in the top layer. Just make a rectangle shaped selection that is big enough to encase your main image. Fill this selection with white and then cut out the center in order to leave a white bordered frame.

Once the frame is done, you can distort it according to your. You can use the perspective tool to accomplish this. Position this frame wherever you want it to intersect your main object.

You will now have to remove the unnecessary parts of your main image layer by using a layer mask. Click on add layer mask and then set it to "white". Use the pencil tool to trace around the frame that you made and around the edges of your object that are located outside of the frame.

To make parts of your layer non-visible, set the pencil tool to black. To make parts visible, set the pencil tool to white. Your goal here is to cleanly cut out the frame and the object out of the original photo.

This is the most important and most difficult part of the project. Remember to apply the changes you made by clicking on the apply layer mask option. Just right click on the list of layers and this option will pop up.

With the frame and main object cleanly cut out, you now have to put the main object in front of the frame. You can make this illusion by simply erasing the parts of the frame that cover the main object.

To make it look even more impressive, you can smooth out the areas where the frame and the main object meet by using the blur tool or even the smudge tool of GIMP.

Finally, add the finishing touches to your masterpiece by airbrushing in some shadows. This is an often overlooked part of 3D effect imaging. Shadows may seem insignificant, but they are actually very important in giving the 3D feel to photographs.

You will need to add shadows for both the frame and the main object. For the frame, use the airbrush tool to paint in the shadow along two edges of the frame, just imagine on which edges the shadows would fall if the light from the photo was shining on the frame. For the main object, simply copy the shadows that were on the original photograph.

You've done it. Your main object is now out of the background. What a great way to maximize the 3D effect using GIMP.

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