I thought those thumbnails were made by external software, not by server-side...
anyway I did test the shadow script u sent me, and...well...it kills my Apache server...litterely...
I have asked the author of that class and he'll look into it.
That's funny, I stumbled on this topic, but no-one ever bothered to ask me, the webmaster of the site how it was done. It's interesting to read your discussion about this but the solution is much simpler:
I added the following to the css files (I use many different CSS for every category etc):
.pic {filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#AF4800,direction=135, strength=5)
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=100);
border: 0;}
Then wherever the picture is defined (cannot find it now, though it was in thumbnail bit but it isn't), I added the class="pic" part, that's all
Will probably only work in IE6+, but who cares, 90 use IE6+ and the rest will never knw it was there...
But I am glad you liked it