Shadows are a part of everyday life and, it sometimes seems, a part of most images we see in print or on the Web.

Everyone's trying to mimic this popular Photography trend of grungy photos of old or homeless people. Find out the secret Photoshop technique that makes wrinkles look dramatic and sculptured.

In this tutorial weâ??re going to show you how to add a dramatic, gritty, bronzed effect to your images.

This easy Photoshop post-processing technique shows how to make dramatic skies, similar to having a circular polarizer filter on the camera. This simply darkens the sky to better reveal your clouds. It's best used in landscapes, cityscapes and can be

Use a 3D Model to Create a Dramatic Scene in Photoshop

Learn how you can apply a dramatic lighting effect to your photos.

Create dramatic black and white photos by splashing in color.

Add a shadow to any person you'd like.

Make your graphics stand out with these drop shadows.

Advanced shadow techniques from Photoshop pro Mark Galer.

This is a basic tutorial that will teach you several ways to make a dropshadow in Photoshop.

Obtaining a good shot of a shadow interacting with your subject can be difficult, especially considering that you can cast shadows too... but why spend hours frustrated by nature's lighting problems, when you can simply take any shot you like and add your shadows later?

Here I'll explain how to work as a Pro with shadow. It`s impossible to show all different skills here, but I suggest you to try and experiment.

Photoshop can be used for many things. One of these things is editing photographs, putting people or objects in environments that they were not originally in. However, there are many problems that arise when doing something like this, the main thin

This teaches you how to make a very realistic shadow in Photoshop - in this case, the shadow is made by a cow. Also teaches how to cut and paste a part of one image into another (cow into parking lot, cow into McDonald's, etc...)

In this tutorial I will teach you how to cast a realistic shadow that will top off your picture perfectly.

Overemphatic shadows can often ruin the balance of photos, and they can even mask out details. There are several methods and features for retaining balance (e.g. Shadow/Highlights, contained in Photoshop CS and above), but the most effective way is to handle the problem yourself.

Control highligts and shadows in a photograph.

We lighten up shadowed areas while breaking in those unruly highlights.

Creating a shadow for a complex object is a little more involved than the freehand shading we've done so far. In this section, we'll create a shadow for a more intricate object.