How to create better quality drop shadows.
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Author: Matt Kloskowski
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches an advanced Photoshop course for Sessions.edu. In addition to being an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer, Matt is a regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines and writes weekly columns for several digital imaging websites.
No – this is not really finished – select the gray shadow and use the gradient tool to fade out the shadow. That looks more realistic.
If there is a color or image behind the shadow, use Luminosity.