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In this Photoshop tutorial you’ll learn how to give photo’s a 3D effect.
This is a really neat process that will make your photo appear to have a real, white outline photo within a photo.  If you angle it just a bit, your photo will appear 3D over the background of the original photo.  This is another one of those techniques that is so simple to achieve, but looks very complicated.

Begin by opening your original photo in Photoshop.  You will see it as a Background layer in your Layers palette.  The second thing you will want to do is to create a duplicate layer.  You can do this quickly by using Ctrl+J and this layer will automatically be named Layer 1. This Layer 1 will become the small photo, so you can rename it if you need to.  Below Layer 1 you need to create a new layer.  Do this by clicking on the New Layer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette.  It looks like a sticky note pad.  Place this new layer between the background and Layer 1.  This will be your clipping mask layer and you can name it that if you would like.

With the clipping mask layer selected, you will select the Rectangle tool from your toolbox.  Draw a rectangle around the area that you want to create into a small photo on the clipping mask layer.  Next, hold down the Alt button and move your mouse cursor between the clipping mask and Layer 1.  You will see the cursor change into the clipping mask icon.  Now, simply click and it will clip down your Layer 1.

Next click on the clipping mask layer and click on the Layer Styles icon.  Select Stroke from the list and this will bring up a large dialog box.  Set your Stroke Size to 10px.  This will create the white border.  Make sure that your Position is set to Inside so that the stroke will appear inside the boundaries, as this will create nice, sharp angles in the corners.  Now, change the stroke color to white. Don’t click OK yet, as you also want to give it a drop shadow.  Change the angle to 134 degrees and the Distance to 9px.  This will create a nice drop shadow.

At this point, you can now rotate the vector shape (clipping mask) slightly to give it the 3D effect.  You can also Free Transform the box to your liking and press Enter when you’re done.  Making these adjustments really makes your photo within a photo stand out dramatically.