How to make recessed overlapping indented lines' frames

[Jim]

I've seen images with what I guess you would call recessed or indented, straight, solid colored line frames set over an image. I've seen some with just one rectangle over the photo and others with two or more overlapping rectangles, etc.  I've looked all over but can't locate a tut' on how to do them. Can someone tell me how to do this and/or direct me to a tutorial describing the correct method?
I'm attaching my beautiful hand-drawn sketch of the idea I have in mind. Thanks.

[pontiac1940]

Jim,
Similar to this? 
Perhaps you wanted the horizontal, top and bottom lines on the "back" landscape inset (box) to run through. That would be easy to add. 
Took about 3 minutes. 
Clive 
Summary

• Duplicated the background layer.
• On the duplicate layer I created a box with the marquee tool and duplicated that rectangle <ctrl><J>
• Using edit layer style a stroke was added 
• On the duplicate layer I created the other box and duplicated it. 
• Using edit layer style a stroke was added to box #2
• Selected the duplicate background layer and added a random texture 
• Flattened, resized and added a stroke to the entire image

[pontiac1940]

Removed two horizontal frames ... 

[Sepiana]

Jan 12, 2023 3:52:44 GMT Jim said:

I've seen images with what I guess you would call recessed or indented, straight, solid colored line frames set over an image. I've seen some with just one rectangle over the photo and others with two or more overlapping rectangles, etc.   
Can someone tell me how to do this and/or direct me to a tutorial describing the correct method?

Jim,

Check this tut. Is this the frame effect you are thinking of?

How to Create Overlapping Frames

[fotofrank]

Have you looked at the prebuilt frames in elements.

[Jim]

Jan 12, 2023 4:10:19 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Jim,
Similar to this? 
Perhaps you wanted the horizontal, top and bottom lines on the "back" landscape inset (box) to run through. That would be easy to add.

Thank you, Clive. That helps a lot. That's basically what I had in mind. The only slight tweak I'd like to know now is how to show all 8 sides of the two overlapping boxes (like the left-hand drawing shows in my original post). Any idea for that?
Here's my first try using your helpful instructions:

[Jim]

Jan 12, 2023 7:47:14 GMT fotofrank said:

Have you looked at the prebuilt frames in elements.

Thanks Frank. I did look through those preset frames in PS Elements 2023 but couldn't see any that were like what I was looking for this time.

[Jim]

Jan 12, 2023 5:05:59 GMT Sepiana said:

Check this tut. Is this the frame effect you are thinking of?

Thank you, Sepiana. That's somewhat along the lines (no pun intended) of what I wanted but Clive's instructions are almost perfect for what I had in mind. Now I just need to find out how to make all 8 complete sides of the overlapping rectangles or squares show in the image instead of only 6 sides. Thanks again.

[hmca]

I gave this a try, Jim. If there was a way for you to include a link to an image that has the look you are trying to achieve that might help us.
From your description, this is what I came up with.

[pontiac1940]

Jan 12, 2023 15:41:05 GMT hmca said:

From your description, this is what I came up with.

Helen
That looks good. Can you explain how you were able to show all 8 sides of the two rectangles? 
In this example, the rectangle stroke lines are 10 pixels, so after flattening the layers, I added a 10 pixel black line to fill in where the rectangle strokes were missing.    
Clive 

[hmca]

So I had another go at this and like this look better.  BUT....this one doesn't show the lines of both rectangles, just noticed that!

[hmca]

Jan 12, 2023 18:00:48 GMT pontiac1940 said:

Can you explain how you were able to show all 8 sides of the two rectangles? 

I think that was because I had each rectangle on their own layer, Clive.

In my next example I deleted two layers because when I turned the eyeball on and off they didn't make a difference but perhaps that was a mistake.

I will try to explain what I did above.

1. Used the marquee to create a horizontal rectangular cut. Stroked that layer and gave it an inner glow using black.
2. Duplicated that layer. Filled it with black, released the marching ants and blurred the black to give a shadow effect.
3. Used marquee to create a vertical rectangle. Stroked that layer and gave it an inner glow using black.
4. Duplicated that layer. Filled it with black, released the marching ants and blurred to give a shadow effect.
5. Created the composite.

[hmca]

Will wait to hear from Jim, before I attempt this again as I may not be even getting close to the look he is after. But I am learning a few things in the process so all good.

[Tpgettys]

These are not at all what the others have offered, but I am curious what you meant by "recessed or indented".  These are the opposite of what I think of as recessed, but the effect could be made to look behind as well as above, and lines around the rectangles could be added if desired.

[hmca]

Well it may not be what he's looking for but I really like your first example, Tom.