GIMP Tutorial: Add a sticker effect to your images
May 28, 2008
In this simple and quick tutorial I will show you how to produce a sticker like effect to your images, similar to this:
- Create a new canvas (Ctrl + N)
- Change the background colour else the white may not stand out too well.
- Now go to File and Open As Layers, find the image you would like to add, I have used an icon from Everaldo’s Crystal Iconset and click Open
- Go to the layers window (Ctrl + L) and select the image layer and click the Duplicate button (4th button along from the left)
- Select the new layer and click Scale Layer from the Layers menu
- Click the link button (the button to the right of the width and height number boxes)
- Change the Width and Height properties to 10 less more than the current value (for example if the width is 100 then change it to 110). Once you have changed these values click the Scale button.
- Now select the layer by pressing Ctrl and A, then cut it by pressing Ctrl and X and then paste it back in Ctrl and V.
- Change the forecolour to white (FFFFFF) in the colour selector on the main window and press Ctrl and , (comma). This will fill the area with white.
- Finally, go to the canvas and choose Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow, change the offset X and offset Y to 0, change the Blur radius to 10 and the opacity to 40 and click OK.
- There you have it, you now have a simple sticker effect. You can download the XCF file here
Karen
May 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am
thanks for the great little tutorial. I know this will be very valuable to many people who use the GIMP because it’s free. I use it sometimes too, so this will give me a reason to play with it again
fadel tolbao
May 30th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Change the Width and Height properties to 10 less than the current value (for example if the width is 100 then change it to 110).
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boy that’s contradictory .
Simon
May 30th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Whoops, sorry about that, changed it now. Thank you for letting me know