Adding the photo

Step 10: Pop open a Soon To Be Festively Framed photo. Duplicate the background layer (just to be on the safe side), and turn its visibility off by clicking its corresponding eyeball in the layers palette.

Step 11: Create a layer mask by pressing the little circle within a square icon at the bottom of the layers palette.

Step 12: Option click the layer mask (PC: Alt click) in the layers palette. At this point your document should turn completely white. You are now peering into the entrails of an empty mask. Press Command + V (PC: Ctrl + V) to paste the film strip into the mask (it should still be on the clipboard if you haven't copied anything else).

NOTE: To resize proportionally, hold down the Shift key while dragging the corner Free Transform handles. In this particular case, the height/width proportions of the mask don't really matter to us.

Step 14: Click on the photo portion of the layer (because we were viewing only the mask above) and POOF! You'll see the lady pop into the film strip negative, as shown below.

At this point you can do many things such as select the layer mask in the and paint with black (or white) to hide (or show) more areas of the photo.

Step 15: Edit the layer mask in black/white mode by option clicking it (PC: Alt click) in the layers palette.

Ste 16: Press B to select the Brush tool and choose a spatter brush from the options toolbar at the top of your screen.

For a final touch, I added a new color layer on the bottom of my layers stack, filled with a hue I sampled from the photo using the Eyedropper tool. I then tacked on the obligatory drop shadow using layer effects.