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Uploaded by on Feb 14, 2008

Use GIMP to add a Polaroid effect to a digital photo (a HTML version is also available)

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  • For me the shadow does not transform itself after the bending. Any ideas why?

  • @Aurimaitis: yeah, you will have to apply the shadow after the bending or also bend the layer with the shadow

  • @nicubunu Thanks, but If I apply the shadow after the bending the shadow isn't dopping on a plane surface (instead it adds 2mm of shadow to the edge of the image)... in the tutorial shadow creates illusion that the picture is above plane surface. Do you know how to accomplish that?

  • @Aurimaitis: the video was made a couple of years ago so I had to re-watch it to remember... the truth is, the shadow is not bended at all, is a rectangle, but the paper is not deformed much, so it not that visible. I only moved the paper a couple of pixels, to make the shadow look better.

  • ok cool stuff! Now, make it so it acts like a polaroid picture that was just taken, where things gradually appear.

  • Not sure how it should look, I don't have experience with *real* polaroids... probably it can be done by adjusting the color curves, maybe transparency of the photo layer.

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  • sorry but would be alot more better if u can talk n guide us cuz like this i'm stuck right now wid the number u put on the canvas size

  • no audio??? why?

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  • I couldn't do it!

  • Nice tutorial. Thank you.

  • Get yourself a mic. It's not very ehlpful if you can't tell us what you're doing.

  • @nicubunu I got it;) Thanks. And for the anti-aliasing problem with usual Bending that you mentioned in written tutorial I used a bigger picture, then if you resize it, it's goes fine.

  • i somehow got it even with no audio.. thanks anyway ^^

  • this video is pointless. it's just a little less intolerable with no sound. go out and take a polaroid! it just shows you the kind of idiots that make fake polaroids if this video has 3 and a half stars and you can't even hear it. ha ha ha.

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