This is a pretty slick technique that I saw in the current issue of one of the photo magazines I subscribe to. I was pleased to see that it was already up on their website:
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/colu ... x-mat.html
Although this is a Photoshop tutorial, everything works exactly the same in Elements except for part of step #6. Apparently Photoshop provides more adjustment control than I was able to find in PSE7. That's not a big deal -- I was able to change the shadow angle and compensated for the inability to adjust distance and size by simply adding noise to that "stroke".
Rusty
http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/colu ... x-mat.html
Although this is a Photoshop tutorial, everything works exactly the same in Elements except for part of step #6. Apparently Photoshop provides more adjustment control than I was able to find in PSE7. That's not a big deal -- I was able to change the shadow angle and compensated for the inability to adjust distance and size by simply adding noise to that "stroke".
Rusty