Image Question

A newbie question........

I will be using a scrolling image script to create a slide show on my home page similar to the image scroller at www.omelettechef.com.

I am wondering how they faded their images around each border (in white). It is a nice affect, and I would like to do something similar....

Be specific as I am very new to photoshop...

1Select the layer you want to fade
2Select-Load Selection
3Select-Modify-Contract (16 pix) OK/
4Select-Feather (2-16pix,depends how much fade you want)
5Select-Inverse
6Edit-Fill-Use- White-Ok OR Delete


...by now you will figure it out , you can feather any Selection shapes you want ;)
and I would use black fade for that picture.

Instead of deleting the part of the image, use a layer mask.

Guys......thanks to both. Will try this out this weekend!