[CS2, CS3] Drop shadow exceeds picture frame

Hi there,
maybe this is a well known effect, if not for myself ...
If you apply a drop shadow to a placed image that has a clipping mask active, you may end up with a shadow area that falls inside the images picture frame as well as outside of it.
This is OK up to a certain point but what if I have to crop the image on one side or the other? The shadow may exceed the picture frame now where I actually want it to be cut. [Hopefully I am making myself sufficiently clear ...]
So is there some option connected to the drop shadow feature to restrict the shadow to the
inside of the picture frame?
Thanks
Klaus

I have experienced similar issues both with clipping paths and with drop shadows. I teach a class for Indesign and an image in one particular exercise I use has a clipping path around a head+shoulders shot of a woman. The path is a P'shop path created from an alpha channel.
In InDesign the image is on top of a tint background which is on a separate layer. The clipping path is not clipping the full image but is leaving a fine, white, unclipped border around the image area (may be only a single row/column of pixels all the way around). As the clipped image has a drop shadow applied in exactly the way David describes, the drop shadow is also applied to these "unclipped" pixels around the edges.
I confess that, as this is just an exercise and has never gone to print, I had not noticed this. One of my students did notice it because he had experienced the same problem in preparing a print job and it had cost his company a fair amount of money to correct it.
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