Adding photo frames to a photo in Gimp

In this tutorial I am going to show how to create a simple but great looking photo frame for your photos. The finished result will look something like this:

1. Firstly open your chosen photo. I am using a photo of me when I was a child playing on my first proper keyboard (ahh, the memories). I have resized the image to 500px x 333px for the purpose of this tutorial.
2. Add a new layer (Ctrl + L [activates the layers dialog] and clicking the add new layer button). Set the background as white.
3. Draw a rectangle inside the layer like this:
   
4. Press Delete:
   
5. This has created the simple frame, so now we can add a shadow to the frame to give it a sense of reality. To do this go to Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow and change the settings to these:
   
6. This will give the following result:
   
7. Now we can add a texture to the frame, I am going to go for a wooden texture. To do this select the frame layer you created, activate the canvas window and press Ctrl + A followed by Ctrl + X and Ctrl + V. This will cut and paste the contents of that layer meaning that the area where the content is can now be edited without affecting the blank space in the middle where the image is shown.
8. Go to the main window (Ctrl + B) and select the paint bucket tool, in the options below change it to pattern fill and select the Wood #1 pattern. Go back to the canvas and click on the selected area.
9. And that is it, you can experiment with different patterns or colours and make it exactly how you would like it, the finished result will look something like this: