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@ Blaaaahs, what function in Photoshop makes the thin black border?

I have PS Elements 6 and I have yet to find that function so I have tried making a 2nd layer slightly larger to place behind my image, but it never looks right and I just delete and move on..

I drew it with a pencil tool. =]

If you right click the Brush icon on your tool bar, you'll see a Pencil icon. Select that, then have the brush size down to 1 pixel (well this can vary depending how thick you want it to be).

Then I just go to the edges of the picture and draw it on the sides. You can try straight lines by click and holding the mouse down, then hold shift, and drag your mouse vertically or horizontally depending which way you wanna go. I also zoom in when I do this sometimes, it makes it easier for me to find the edge.