We are going to make this:



Step 1:
Open the image you want to use in The Gimp (GNU Manipulation Program). Now go to the menu Image and click on canvas-size, then make the width bigger and bigger and finally click on center it and then ok.


Step 2:
Go to the layers window, and click right on the layer you have got, and click on alpha to selection. Now go to the selection menu and grow the selection as big as you think is enough, I grew it 10px. Make a new layer, fill the selection with white. Lower the layer hitting the arrows. Now go to the menu selections and click selection none.


Step 3:
Create a new layer and rise it as much as you can with the arrow keys. Now using the brush of 3px draw the outline of the tape on the new layer. Draw like this: click where you want to begin, hold shift and then move the mouse around and when your happy click again, the again hold shift without having to click again and so you do it.


Step 4:
Select the fuzzy select tool and click in the middle of the tape, and then holding the shift tool select the other tape insides. Then fill the selections with black.


Step 5:
Lock the layer by clicking the empty box in the layers window. Then select a nice color like brown and fill the black tape with another color.


Step 6:
Click on the layer of the image marge and copy and past that layer, now you have to do is click right on that layer and click on resize the layer to the size of the image. Then lock the layer and drag the color black to the image. Unlock the layer and now go to the menu filters and then blur and then gaussian blur and put the settings as big as you like, I put it as 10px. Put the new layer under all the layers and put the opacity as you like. Then, finally ad a background layer with the color you wish.


Final step:
Lower the layer's opacity as much as you like. Done! Do you like it?