Photo Effects: Painted Edges Photo Border Effect

Step 9: Add A New Layer Above The "White Background" Layer

With the "white background" layer selected (it doesn't matter here if the layer or the layer mask is selected, either one will do), add a new layer. This time, let's use the keyboard shortcut, Shift+Ctrl+N (Win) / Shift+Command+N (Mac), which brings up Photoshop's New Layer dialog box:

Inside the dialog box, rename the new layer we're creating to "Canvas", as I've circled in red above. Nothing else needs to be changed, then click OK and Photoshop will add the new layer above the "white background" layer and will name it "Canvas":

We named it "Canvas" because this layer is going to contain our canvas effect, as we'll see in a moment.

Step 10: Fill The "Canvas" Layer With White

Just as we did with the "white background" layer, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Backspace (Win) / Command+Delete (Mac) to fill this layer with white, since white is still our background color:

Our image is once again hidden from view, but that's okay for the moment.

Step 11: Apply A Canvas Texture To The Layer With The Texturizer Filter

We're now going to apply a canvas texture to this layer. Go up to the Filter menu at the top of the screen, select Texture, and then select Texturizer, which brings up the massive Filter Gallery dialog box showing us the options for the Texturizer filter over on the far right:

I've circled the options we're interested in with red above. Make sure Texture is set to Canvas, Scaling is set to 100%, Relief is set to 4, and the Light direction is set to Top. Click OK and Photoshop will apply the texture to the "Canvas" layer:

We can see the canvas texture but we can't see our image. We're going to fix that next.