Photoshop shadow creation
Your monitor can be 2D, but yet you can take a taste of 3D view. Various types of shadows can provide your subject a realistic view. After editing or removing background an image looks as if it is floating, and it makes the image looks like a fake. In this case, the designers use various types of photoshop shadows. The shadows can make any image live. Besides, shadows increase the beauty of your graphical works like logo, banner, button, creative image, web template, etc.
Applying shadow is very easy. You can simply add drop shadow. For more professional uses, you have to be a little bit creative and tricky. You have to understand the position of light, shadow distance, sizes, and many more. Actually, it mostly depends on the practice, observing, real life shadow, and a deep thinking.
By the way, for the betterment of you, we have created a handsome collection of various types of shadows. You can download the PSD of the files and thus you can practice. This collection will help you much to understand the proper way of applying shadows. This set of shadows will provide you inspiration for playing with graphical works.