Stroke outline selection creates inner shadow - why?

Hi,
this is a typical beginners questions, so please bare with me if the answer is pretty obivous.
I put a few pictures in idividual layers on a canvas and made a simple frame using stroke selection. Then I made the mistake to rescale the pictures, and obviously the frames got scaled as well. So now they are all of different thickness and I would like to correct that by using again stroke outline selection. The only problems is: I get a whole bunch of effects I don't understand:
The following images showes the situation before I click o.k. and apply the settings to the right hand picture:
After clicking o.k. I see that the frame became wider (o.k. so far) but that there is also a brighter line inside the brown border- why? And more over there appears to be a shadow border inside the image, about as thick as the frame - where does this come from?
Any help would be much appreciated,
regards, Christoph

Thanks for the help so far! I am trying to reproduce in order to better understand whats going on.
1. Upper corner of a jpg image (500% view)
2. Selected by simple mouse cluck. Then outine selection 8 pt inside
3. Image size reduced to 60%
(so far everything as expected)
4. Again select by simple mouse click, then outline seletion again 8 pt inside
and .... result is perfect, as in image 2
I don't get it,
halve an hour ago, when I tried to reproduce I got the artifacts ... really !

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Yeah Photoshop, and most other vector applications I've tried (even CSS3 stylesheet has it!).
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