I must say that all of DigArts product are very useful and good, shadows or no shadows. Before buying, what I'm saying here is that, each of its kind are similar....its a question of buying it for the paint grogram you use most in. For me, Corel Photo Paint does all my post work and certainly, I would love to have Tree Forestry for Photo Paint. Also, depending on what you want to do with these product, they are sorta like "nozzle" spray in someway...take some time in getting use to and applying them correctly do take sometime.