Help with linking a layer to motion tracked video

Not sure of the best way to describe this. I have a video with shadow in it which only moves slightly when camera pans a little.
Ive created a static image and removed the shadow in photoshop although could have probably done that using the clone stamp in AE.
However, the problem I have is that when the photoshop image is imported and I create the mask around the image where my shadow is on the video, the image is not tracked or linked to the video... How do I link it to the motion tracked video so that it moves with the video ?

Hiya
Yeah one below.. What you will see is the photoshop file, then the null layer followed by the original footage. In effect I need the photoshop image to track the movement of the camera as when I currently play the video, when the camera moves it looks as though a chunk of grass (the mask) is moving different from the rest of the scene.

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> Murray wrote - "Why use templates at all with this kind
of ratio? You know
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> necessary to do this just because your layout changes a
bit...."
>
> Thanks for your reply to my question. In answering your
question or point
> you
> made above. You can easily tell that I am trying to get
my hands around
> using
> the program. The layout of the pages changed almost all
through the pages
> and
> the one way I thought I could get around that was to use
different
> template
> files. At the end of the day, I got myself into more
headaches and
> heartaches -
> all my links just disappeared on me. I am self-taught
with a painfully
> learning
> experience. I believe there should be a better and
easier way. I honestly
> do
> not know. Any help you can give me will be appreciated.
>
> On the pop-up, it was a just one menu pop-up on one of
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> the
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> changes to Drmvr again and since then, the links got
screwed up.
>
> I can send you the pages for a review if you give me an
address I can send
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