Photoshop Tutorial: Shadow Effect

1. Open Photoshop. Create a new image of size 300x150 pixels with white background and name it as Example-1.
2. Set the foreground color to Black. Choose Arial Black as font style and 22 as Font size. Select the Horizontal tool from the Tools menu and type Example-1.

Note: Automatically this becomes another layer, Layer 1. The words which you type will become the name of the layer, if not named. In this case it would be Example-1

1. Now Duplicate the layer and name it as Layer 1
2. Drag Layer 1 with Move tool so that the image now appears like this



3. Under Blending options of Layer 1, adjust the opacity to 20%



4. Under Gradient Overlay of Layer-1, adjust the angle to -90 degrees



5. Now, the image would appear like this:



6. With Layer 1 still selected, under Edit menu, choose Transform-> Flip Horizontal to get the following image:



7. Again, under Edit menu, choose Transform-> Rotate 180 degrees to get the following image: