Photo Manipulation in GIMP – Taj Mahal In A Bottle

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a photo manipulation of Taj Mahal in a bottle using GIMP. GIMP is a free and open-source graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats and more specialized tasks.

The steps to create this are very simple and you can create this cool image within a few minutes! Follow the video and text tutorial given below.

1. Open a New Page
2. Open your image from the Files Location (here we have added a bottle)
3. To add your file drag and drop
4. Resize the image using the Scale Tool
5. Move the image to the center of the page using the Move Tool
6. Again open your image from the Files Location (here we have added Taj Mahal). Drag and Drop the the image to the file and move and align the image to the desired location (over the bottle).
7. Pick the Paint Brush Tool Option and change the image mode to multiply
8. Erase the image which is outside the bottle using the Eraser tool
9. Align using the Move tool
10. Export the file and you are done

Using the same method you can create amazing photo manipulations like the example given below of a shark opening his mouth to eat a goldfish in a fish bowl.