Blur border and Vignette

To create this picture I used the rectangular marquee tool to select a rectangle in the center of the picture. Then I selected the inverse and went to filter, then blur, then Gaussian blur and changed the radius of the blur until I liked how the blur looked. Then I added a new layer for the center of the picture and added a drop shadow and a bevel. 

For this picture I used the oval marquee tool and selected the center of the picture then I went to the select menu and chose feather and chose about 45 pixels. Then I copied the middle of the picture and pasted it onto a new file. Then I used the text tool to add text and changed the font and colour until I liked it.