CSS Drop Shadow vs Box Shadow

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The other day Josh made a super cool tweet about drop-shadow supporting PNG's; I didn't know it supported PNG's, so I decided to give it a go.
For my example we are using my favourite Pokémon "Eevee" and will place our three Eevee png's in a container.
<div class="container">
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/q3SXJQf.png" />
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/q3SXJQf.png" class="box-shadow" />
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/q3SXJQf.png" class="drop-shadow" />
</div>
As you can see one is going to be a raw example, one will have a box-shadow and the third will have the drop-shadow.
You probably have seen and used the box-shadow before, it's a cool feature and adds a shadow to our "box".
It works like this:
.box-shadow {
box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #000;
}
It puts a shadow on the image, but on the box of it.

Then there is a CSS Filter which is amazing when it comes to contouring a PNG!
.drop-shadow {
filter: drop-shadow(0px 0px 10px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5));
}

This all will result in the following Codepen.
As mentioned before, CSS Filters are cool, but not widely supported yet 😩.
There is a polyfill, but also limited.

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