Manipulating an Image

Choose the Marquee tool- oval shape

Select- modify – feather

Change to 150 

Select- Inverse

Filter- Blur – Radical Blur

Zoom or Spin

Change to 80-90 

Press OK

Repeat the process as before..

But change to Zoom instead

Press Ok

To add a border, use the same Marquee tool and select the middle of the photograph.

Then feather the image

Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation

       

Inverse the selection                                        

                                             

Slide the 'lightness' bar to the left to make it as dark as you want. 

To blur the outside of a photograph...

Select the middle of the photo with the marquee oval tool

Filter - Blur - Gaussian Blur

Adjust the strength of the Blur