Recently I have been going through my archives trying to get them organized in an effort to create a portfolio. The portfolio could be going better but while looking through all of the old photos I came across alot of them that I had made frames for in photoshop. The frame below is one I used to really like and it only takes 6 steps to make it happen.
To start open your image in Photoshop, I cropped mine to 1000px wide if you use a different size image adjust all of the sizes accordingly.
Step 1: Create a new blank layer on top of the background layer and make this new layer active.
Step 2: Use ctrl+A to select the entire image then right click on the image and select stroke. set the options to 10 px wide, black, inside, normal and 100%. The most important setting here is the location we set this to inside so that we will have nice sharp corners.
Step 3: Go to select>modify>contract this will make the selection you have going around the whole image evenly smaller so we can make the inner line. I contracted the selection by 50 px.
Step 4: Right click and go to stroke again. This time set the width of the stroke to 3px. This will make the inside black line. Then hit ctrl+D to remove your selection.
Step 5: Use the magic wand tool and click between the 2 lines we have made then in the layers pallet switch to the background layer.
Step 6: Go to filter>blur>gaussian blur I set this to 17.6 but the amount of blur is totally personal preference. Then hit ctrl+D again and we are done. The finished frame can be seen at the beginning of this post.