Originally Posted by
Judy Howle
Norm, instead of using curves and masking, after you place the toad on the leaf, go to Layer, Layer styles and click on the WORDS drop shadow, not the checkbox, so that the options will open, then adjust it to your liking. Once you get the size, angle and opacity set you can just click on the shadow right on the frog actually and move it where you want it with your mouse. You can always add more with a curves adjustment layer later if needed.
Michael's 2nd version looks good. He is right that the toad is too light and too warm for the scene and looks better to me after his adjustments. (Even though that may be it's real color.)