How to make my photos look really good with Gimp?

I recently bought an Ultra-Zoom camera (here's a picture of the camera, it's the Fujifilm Finepix S3280): http://images.pricerunner.com/product/30… I have GIMP the photo editing program, but I don't really know what to do to make my pictures look...

Mmm'kay, so I'm doing something for my friend's friend, & she wants me to edit a picture & put her, & Matthew Lush together, & make it look like their really together in the picture. & surfing around the internet, I found out that...

I am messing around with my brothers picture and I was just trying to make it look like the glitzier photos from pageants because i thought i might want to test it out on my sisters photos. Here is his original photo: http://tinypic.com/r/123p35x/5 And...

I'm ugly and I want a nice facebook profile picture for people to see but I just look really ugly what can I do to make the pictures look prettier like any ideas not photoshop or anything tho but like poses or the way I look at the camera or backgrounds...

I'm ugly and I want a nice facebook profile picture for people to see but I just look really ugly what can I do to make the pictures look prettier like any ideas not photoshop or anything tho but like poses or the way I look at the camera or backgrounds...

I'm ugly and I want a nice facebook profile picture for people to see but I just look really ugly what can I do to make the pictures look prettier like any ideas not photoshop or anything tho but like poses or the way I look at the camera or backgrounds...

I'm ugly and I want a nice facebook profile picture for people to see but I just look really ugly what can I do to make the pictures look prettier like any ideas not photoshop or anything tho but like poses or the way I look at the camera or backgrounds...

i see photos all the time on tumblr with a specific kind of vintage look and i was wondering if anyone knew how it was done? photos like these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mryrbnsn/4352721608/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/mryrbnsn/44...

Pretty much a friends band wants me to do a picture of the lead singer with blood running down his face, but he is allergic to the stuff in fake blood. So, I am wondering how do you make it look like there is a running thick liquid on someone's face...