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Right click on the layer effects in the palette and click “Create Layers” to put the drop shadow and bevel-emboss highlights on their own separate (and editable) layers.
Create a layer mask for each of the newly created layers. Using a black semi-hard brush, paint out the unwanted drop shadows – particularly at the edges or where the stone would be lying behind the foreground (as in the example of the arm shown here). Paint out some of the highlights where the sun wouldn't be shining, and to vary the thickness of the highlight line. You can just delete the shadow layer created by the bevel/emboss effect – since we have the drop shadow already we don't need it.
