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In today’s tutorial, we are going to show you how to make a nice photo frame. Open your image, and make sure that the layers palette is open. Right-click on your background, duplicate the layer, call this layer “Frame”. Now right-click on your background once again, duplicate the layer, call the next one “Picture”. OK Now we are going to increase our canvas size so we have some room to work with. Click “Image”, “Canvas Size”, and for a picture of this size, with these dimensions, we are going to increase each dimension by 100. Now we want to go click on the background, use the little drop-down on the layers palette, click new layer, call this one “Colour”. And the colour we are going to choose in this case, is our foreground colour, white. And we choose my “Paint Bucket Tool”, click, and we have our chosen background colour. Now, click on the “Frame” layer, and then Ctrl-click on the frame layer, and we’ll have a selection that surrounds just the photo portion. And we want to click on “Layer”, “Layer Mask”, and “Reveal Selection”. OK Now you’ll see layer mask appears to the right on the frame layer, but we don’t want this central area to be all filled with white. White is the area that is actually going to be revealed. We want a thin border, so, once again we are going to Ctrl-click on the layer to get that same selection we had earlier, and we’re going to go “Select”, “Modify”, “Contract”.