Create a 3D Photo Effect with the GIMP

Set Up Your Layers

Create a 3 layer image with a background, photo, and transparent top layer.

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Open your original photograph as a new layer in your new blank image. You'll now have two layers.

Add another new layer with transparency. This layer will hold the frame for your 3D photo. You'll now have three layers:

• Background (bottom layer)
• Photograph (middle layer)
• Frame (transparent top layer)

• Make Your Subject Step Out of the Photograph
• Select a Photograph
• Set Up Your Layers
• Create a Frame
• Add Perspective
• Add a Mask
• Remove the Background
• Edit the Frame
• Change the Background
• Finetune Your 3D Photo