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Hi Rankin,
Nobody has replied for a few days so,
take another look at the post by
Redink1 - Nov 25. My first skill is in music and I am okay in Programming but terrible at graphics.

Using MSpaint I just spent 8 minutes and drew a 3-d cube with a shadow that looks ok.

I made a copy of the cube,
Used stretch/skew to reduce the size by 50%,
Switched from colors to black&white,
Filled with the pattern in the pallette,
used the mouse to fix the border,
then pasted this back into the original.

I know a cube is a simple graphic and it doesn't help you use some major graphics software to do the tedious for you, but it will get the job done.

My first computers were commodores so all graphics where coded pixel by pixel, and remeber I am &crap at drawing.

You could always look in the Layers/Dropshadow tool in imageready to see how that works.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=shadows+in+image+ready&meta=
yeilded these in the first couple of pages

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/surfboard/

http://www.vecpix.com/tutorials/photoshop/ps016.php

http://www.grafx-design.com/14photo.html

http://www.lowrestv.com/lowres/tutorials/tutorial_01.asp?tut_id=t05

http://www.maidenart.co.uk/christmastinselbrush.html

hth to get you started,
mm.