New to Pshop, trying to make gradient drop shadow for webpage

I am a newbie, just got Pshop and watching every tutorial I can find but can't seem to figure out how to make this graphic. This is a background image for one of my websites (where I did not create the graphic). Can anyone point me to a good tutorial or walk me through how to create this for a new site I am working on? Thanks, Gary

or... you could use CSS3 drop shadows on the containing element and skip the need for background images all together.
otherwise I would defer to the list just provided... there seems to be some good tuts in there on how to do what you are looking for...
the hickup you will run into is fading the shadow out at the bottom... this will require seperating the fx layer out and masking it off...
or just masking the layer itself since the your background is the same color as the element.

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> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a similar look and feel as this
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>
http://www.livingsteel.org/
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>
> I'm trying to do everything in .css from now on and any
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