This will put a white glow around every image in your document, use more specific selectors to choose which images you'd like the glow around. You can change the color of course :)
If you're worried about the users that don't have the latest versions of their browsers, use this:
You can use CSS3 to create an effect like that, but then you're only going to see it in modern browsers that support box shadow, unless you use a polyfill like CSS3PIE. So, for example, you could do something like this: http://jsfiddle.net/cany2/
If you need it to work in older versions of IE, you can use CSS3 PIE to emulate the box-shadow in those browsers & you can use filter as kyle said like this
will give you a nice looking padded in image. The padding will give you a simulated white border (or whatever border you have set). the rgba is just allowing you to do an opicity on the particular color; 0,0,0 being black. You could just as easily use any other RGB color.