Creating Shadows

Hi folks
I have been looking at trying to create shadows for some of my artwork...
I know you can create gradients, blends etc but am not having much luck....
I read some where about blends being great for complex shapes and can be quite easily adjusted when needed....
I haven't found the how to that gives me all the info...
For example I have a shape that I want to create a shadow for using a blend.....but also be able to put the blend on other colour backgrounds....
Can someone walk me through all the steps or point me to a good how to that shows even the blend mode settings...
Thanks!
bookie56

I have an example here - maybe it will help:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_bgimages_pt3.html
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"dizzy nuts" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi there
>
> would somebody please help me, I've been following the
adobe tech notes on
> how
> to use background images and css . I've created a
wrapper.jpg as the
> wrapper
> shadow image, so I now have a page with a shadow going
down the left and
> right
> side of the page. this is the tect note I'm following
>
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_bgimages_pt3.html
>
> I've done what the tech note says, but what I cant find
out is how to make
> the
> shadow go to the botton of the page. like when you put a
table at Height
> 100%
> so it stay to the bottom of the page! I've tried
changing the values in
> the
> css to 100% but this make the image(wrapper.gif) to a
smaller size
> completely.
>
> does anyone know what I'm to do I'm sure its something
really simple!
> heres an
> example of the shadows downside of the page
http://www.ntlworld.com/
>

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