Render with the Gimp

First open up a picture in the Gimp, most pictures are in .jpg format. Adjust the percentage to 400 or whatever looks BIG.

You want to create and edit paths with the path tool. What you do is just click along the edge to cut out your head. Just like connecting the dots. If one of the dots is off where you want it you can drag it to where you want it.

Then

• You can use the keyboard shortcuts but I just use the menu on the top of the image.
• Go to layers -> Transparency -> Add Alpha Channel
• then Select -> From Path
• then Select -> Invert
• then Edit -> Clear
• then I save it as a .png <- make sure there is a check in the box for save background image
• then Image -> Autocrop
• Then I will Image -> Scale Image to around 100 pixels
• Save
• then I close the image and reopen it. Not sure why I had to do this before I added the drop shadow but I did.
• then Script-Fu -> Shadow -> Drop Shadow
• thats it