Shadow Tutorial

In class we were to take an object from a image and give it a shadow and put in a new background. I used the quick selection tool to get the kitten then I used refine edge to get the extra fur around the body. The refine edge tool wasn't working on the head so I just used the eraser and erased the unneeded part of the image. I then duplicated the kitten layer turned it on its side, added a gradient on the shadow, and then made the shadow match up with the kitten. I put the grassy background in and edited the shadow to make it look better on the background.