Creating a dark shadow in photoshop for use in indesign file...

In my photshop file is a cut out image of a chess piece on a transparent background.
I want to create a shadow so it looks like the chess piece is casting a shadow so that I can open and use it in my indesign document on a background of any colour.
Whats the common technique to achieve this? Do I just paint the shadow using a black brush at a low opacity?

Jayboyd wrote:
Do I just paint the shadow using a black brush at a low opacity?
Yes you can actually do that.
You can make a selection of the chess piece and fill that with black or a dark gray and lower the opacity and use the transform tool to distort the
filled selection to represent a cast shadow.Or if you understand how to use the perspective grids in Vanishing point you can create a grid to the perspective you wish the cast to be and drop the shadow on the grid.

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