How to make a sticker look

Wow, it's incredible how much can go wrong with something as simple as trying to make a video. Everything that could go wrong has. The video got corrupted several times over and I had to retake it and piece it together, but I've given up on it being up until Friday at the earliest. The audio is at varying levels to the point that the first half you can't hear it and the second half it goes up about 20 notches. I spent three days trying to edit it and make it work, but that's not happening. I'm going to have to retake with a new audio set up, but that's going to take time to figure out so here's hoping for Friday.

And here's today's filler post:

A couple months ago I got a huge inspiration to do a picture in Gimp that actually turned out pretty cool. My only problem was that in one part I wanted a sticker kind of effect and I wasn't exactly positive on how to do it. I had the general idea and I figured it would be pretty easy to figure out, I just needed to be sure. And when I searched I came up pretty much blank. If I remember correctly there was maybe one tutorial that gave a general idea of how to do it. So here's my version and it literally can be broken down to just a few steps and will take about three minutes tops to do.

Step 1: Go ahead and open up your image and cut it out. I am using a sandcastle that I used for the original piece. Remember to add an alpha channel to your layer if you're cutting out a background.

Step 2: Right click on the image layer and go down to alpha to selection (near the bottom)

Step 3: Create  anew transparent layer. 

Step 4: Go to Select, Border

Step 5: Adjust the border size to whatever you like. I wanted mine large. 

Step 6: Go ahead and fill in with the bucket tool. I stuck with a classic white to boost the effect, but you can use whatever you want. 

Step 7: Select, None

Step 8: Go to Filters, Light and shadow, Drop shadow

Step 9: Adjust the settings to your liking. 

And you're done! Here's the final picture. 

And here's the project that I used it on:

If you have any questions or comments feel free to leave them below and I'll be sure to get back to you ASAP!