Browsing through Google images or the hundreds of stock photography agencies available on the web is something that has become more than a pre-requisite when you carry out (from scratch) any graphic design.

This is why posts presenting the latest and hopefully most innovative series of button, social media icons or other graphic arts are so popular among the designing community.

As a shady character myself, I could not find any better starting point than bringing up the subject of shadows, which is in fact, believe it or not (sad… I know), one of my Photoshop favourites when it comes down to adding a bit of style to a picture or hand-made drawing.

There must be a thousand ways to add shadows to objects or people on Photoshop, but as you may have guessed we are only going to take a look at my way of doing it.