[Help] lowering and moving pictures forward in photoshop cs4

hi, i dont know how to explain this problem very well but, i'd like to know how to move images up and down, and forward into the picture. here is a example. i got 2 images, one of a cat, one of a cat bed. and i want to move the cat, so it's lowered into the bed, and it doesnt just look like i've moved it. here is a example via a picture: see how the cubes are placed behind and lowered etc... i do know its a puzzle, but thats what im trying to explain, but not very well, and want to be able to acheive this using photoshop cs4 or any other program which allows this feature. thanks

It would take too long to spell out the steps but maybe this quick mockup will give you an idea.
3 Images — plain background; wall, and vehicle.
Drag the wall image, suitably distorted with the transform tool, into the background image.
Drag the vehicle image in and give it a drop shadow.
You now have three layers in one image.
Save it as a PSD or, for the web, as a flattened JPG.

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