Turn a Photo Into a Polaroid with Photoshop Elements

Next I want to add a subtle shadow to give the effect that the paper is overlapping the photo. Switch to something other than the move tool to get rid of the bounding box. Hold the Ctrl key down and click the photo layer in the layers palette. This loads a selection around the pixels of the layer.

Click the new layer button on the layers palette and drag this layer to the top of the layers palette. Go to Edit > Stroke (Outline) Selection… and set the stroke to 1 px, color black, location outside. Click OK.

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