: I'd make a separate layer. Take the picture of the shadow on white (remove the pen itself from this copied layer) and turn that in to a fairly high contrast monochrome image. Use that high

@Shakeerah625

I'd make a separate layer.

Take the picture of the shadow on white (remove the pen itself from this copied layer) and turn that in to a fairly high contrast monochrome image. Use that high contrast image as the layer mask for a new layer. Fill the layer mask with a decent shadow color and/or set it to a subtractive blending mode (multiply, burn, etc)

This way you can later easily still change the shadow opacity, color, and (using curves blur and sharpen on the mask) falloff.

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