GIMP Polaroid effect

There are some things in life which go in cycles and such a cycle, a short one, is the cycle I started a couple of weeks ago with an Inkscape tutorial, continued with another and it ends now back on track with some GIMPing, after which I will take a break from tutorials. What I'll do next? Upload some old clipart on OCAL? Do some Fedora graphics? Something else? Nothing? We'll see.

A tutorial about creating a Polaroid effect from a digital photo is quite un-original, it involves basic operations like layer and canvas management, drop shadows, selection move and rotation, with distort filters being the most "advanced" part. So read it if it sound interesting.

Somewhere inside is buried a screencast, which, as all my screencasts, is rough: unedited and without a sound track (despite the number of requests I received for adding sound). Maybe I should reveal the real reason why I dont' add any sound: it is not about the video editors, you can install Cinelerra from kwizart (it is compatible with livna) and you can get over its interface (one of the the fugliest UI I ever say) or crashiness. I don't add voice because my spoken English is so bad that I can't put it on the web with a straight face and I don't add music because the music I like is powerful, strong, heavy and will distract the viewer from the video, which is the real point of interest. And of course, is not free (sute, I can get to classic music, which may solve both issues, but I am affraid it will make the screencasts "uncool").

Wow! I got really off-topic from the main point, the tutorial. Anyway, it has also a Romanian translation available. Now is the time for a break.