Make Photoshop file to thumbnail and regular size?

Hello,
I want to know how to make automater make thumbnails for me and do regular size image in photoshop. I want like the thumbnails to have border around it with drop shadow and a specific height and width. For the regular image i want it to be at a specific height and width. Is that possible, if so how i would love to do that instead of going to each one by itself.
Thanks

I believe that you would be better off using just Photoshop. Photoshop has an Actions pallet that allows you to record a series of actions as you do them to one image and then run it on many files.
For example you could record an action that does what you want with the following actions:
opening a file
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save as a jpg
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change the background layer into layer 0 (allows for shadow to be added)
apply the drop shadow
reveal all (will resize canvas to show the image and shadow)
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Take a look at Actions in Photoshop help to get you started. They are very powerful. There may be a way to tie them into Automator as well.

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