Adobe Photoshop includes Layer Styles, a number of automated effects that you can apply to layers, including drop shadows, glows, beveling, and embossing, as well as a color fill effect.

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

You should think about adding dramatic shadows to a photo when you want to create an emotional edge or emphasize a specific area or feature of the subject.

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.

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?

Make your graphics stand out with these drop shadows.

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

Add a shadow to any person you'd like.

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

Control highligts and shadows in a photograph.

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

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.

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.

Working with Levels Enhance your digital photos

Learn how to truly make a picture worth a thousand words by adding a different shadow behind someone in a photo, as if the person will one day become the image in the shadow! A fun, easy and popular Photoshop effect that's limited only by your imagination!

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.

Learn a simple and versatile method of casting a shadow from any complex object in Adobe Photoshop. I find myself using this technique on a regular basis.

Our tutorial will be about how to drop the right shadow in Photoshop and how to make a clean nice selection. This is a technical tutorial so we will get no pretty images in the end.

The following tutorial will walk you through creating a new image file to opening a picture. We will also show you how to save an image and some important keyboard shortcuts. Along the way we will show you many different tips and tricks that can be used in Photoshop and image files such as how to open multiple files at once.