Thanks for your compliments Drivenslush. You know, I already have grounded grounding shadows. I even thought they were too heavy and dodged them a little. But I will try to do a little something to the tail to please you!

Have you tried just drawing a black disk under the object you want to ground? Just blur and fade to the right shade, it's much easier than dodge and burn and you only have to deal with that layer and not the shades of the existing photo that contains the shadow. You may know that already (I'm not really good at Photoshop, I just fake it really good ) When you've got the proper shape (warp/scale/distort) you can change the opacity on the disk which is much easier than dodge.. well for me anyway. Then I just touch up the main object with burn where it's needed. ACK! I shouldn't be teaching.. I suck at photoshop and there could be a beating... hehehe.. good luck.. (Just suggesting)

This is Exactly What I Have Done to ground the shadows, Mr Slush, what you say with black discs and so on. Then I have adjusted the shadows when flatten to get them as I wanted them to be. They are note very contrasted shadows as it was not a very sunny day. The heat was just enough for the lazy little cat to fall asleep in the hammock.

Thanks Scratzilla.

Thank you.