Thanks, yes it took about 20 minutes after masking and doing the shadows. Here's what I did: Photographed screwdriver on a gray card in RAW format, opened image in Adobe RAW converter and brought into PSCS2 in 16 bit mode. Adjusted for the gray point, and masked the screwdriver using the pen tool. Made a selection of the mask and made the image layer my active layer. Copied and pasted into a new document, with white background. Increased canvas size, and pasted the driver, pasted another beneath and reduced it's size to 95% of original, and flipped horizontally, then repeated the paste, resize and flip many times. Once a number of driver were completed I merged the layers. then copied and pasted the grouped driver layers, then reduced their size also.
For the shadows, I duplicated the driver layers, used the magic wand to select around them, then inverted selection and painted them BLACK with a brush tool. I then applied Gaussian blur to the Black silhouette and reduced transparency, then rotated the screwdrivers away from the new shadow.
I did the same for the screwdriver on it's side, but used distort to change the shadow, and burned it as it got closer to the hand grip. Then before I was finished, went around with an eraser brush and cleaned up unsightly shadow areas. :)
Thanks for your nice comments.
Brian