Step 1
Step 2
Duplicate the layer by dragging tot the new layer icon in the layers palette.
Step 3
Make sure the foreground color is set to black
Now fill the new layer by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Delete Mac:Cmd+Shift+Del (The shift key will make it only fill where there are pixels aka preserve transparancy)
Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur, amount of 3-5
Step 4
Now to distort the shape. (If you are going to do this to text, you must render the type first)
Press Ctrl/Cmd+T, this will bring up the free transform tool. Right click on the selected object Mac:Cmd click. Select "Distort" from the pop-up menu.
You will see a bounding box with 8 little squares, click and drag the top left and top right squares (called handles) until it looks similar to the picture on the left. Press Enter/Return to apply the transformation.
Step 5
Duplicate the shadow layer. Drag to the
icon again.
Apply the gausian blur again, this time add a larger setting 5-10
Step 6
We now want to make the shadow softer as it gets further away.
Go back to the top shadow layer and add a layer mask.
Using the gradient tool drag it from right to left to blend the 2 shadow layers.
Step 7
Finally Set the shadow to multiply mode and the opacity of the top shadow layer to about 50% and the bottom shadow to about 30%
Experiment and see what looks best for your image.
