mass identity plate/frame

[Maleaha]

http://digital-photography-school.co...th-your-photos
in this post, the author shares a pic of her daughter with an identity plate frame around it. can this be set up as a template and added to all photos? how and where?

[Japaslavian]

In short, yes.
But it will be a little more complicated than just sticking it on your photos.

If you want it as a template, you'll have to make sure every photos is exactly the same size so you can just drop it in.
To make the template, open up a new Photoshop document, and set it to your desired size. Remember, having a border will increase the image size overall, so make sure to compensate; ie If you want to print a 4x6 with a .5 inch border, make sure the image is set up as a 3.5x5.5 so nothing gets cut off.
Going off that example of having a .5 inch border, select your marquee tool (shortcut key M) and go to the top of the document where a dropdown menu will let you choose between 'normal,' 'fixed ratio,' and 'fixed size.' Select fixed size and set your width and height 3.5x4.5. Then just click in your document, and a square marquee should show up. Center it on the page, then go to Select>Invert Selection (cmd+shift+i on keyboard). Then just fill with your desired color and add any logos or whatever you want.
Save this as your template, as a PSD.
DO NOT SAVE AS A JPEG, this will fill the middle with white.

From then on, all you need to do is drop your 4x6 image into your template PSD. Just make sure the frame layer in on the top.
You can make this any size that you want, I just used the 4x6 as a simple example.

If your images aren't the same size or different ratios, you're going to have to do this individually each time.
Or you can make an action where you would open up a new document, duplicate the empty layer, select the new layer, and then Modify>Contract>however many pixels you want (72 pixels is about 1 inch), then select inverse, fill with color. That will do it to any image size. Then you can drop the image in.

Hopefully that explains it well enough.