Shadow Effect for a Truck

Desperately looking for some expertise!
I need assistance in creating the shadow effect underneath a vehicle and its tires. I have hunted through as many books as I can find and even looked at the D&D in the current issue of Photoshop User but I'm having no luck (yes I am a novice)!
This is for an ad for a fire truck that I am doing for a national publication and I have to get it right! If this is really difficult can you suggest someone in Central New Jersey that may be able to assist.
Thank you,
Rich
ps: I am using CS3 on Windows XP.

G'day Rich
It might be an idea to look at some vehicle pictures to get an idea of the shape of your shadow.
You would then make a selection of the shape and put in on a seperate layer behind your vehicle picture. (vehicle picture would have to be cutout i.e. surrounded by transparency)
Then fill this selection with the colour of the shadow, this colour is often not grey but is best selected from the colour of a real shadow. Then blur it (filter > blur > gaussian blur) then add noise (filter > noise >) and finally change the blend mode of this layer to something like multiply, this effect will depend on the actual colour of the background you are using.
There are other ways to do this as always in Photoshop.
Sometimes the actual shape of your vehicle layer could be used to make the selection and then transformed but this doesn't always work.
If you could post a pic it might help to better advise.
My very first ad was also as a novice for a worlwide travel magazine! so good luck with this and don't be put off by unhelpful comments!
regards
John

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