Picture Dropshadow w/ Transparent Background

Bit of a new user here. Anyway, in CS5 I'm trying to make some pictures have a drop shadow effect with a transparent background so they can be posted on various background colors or patterns. The problem being that when I save, the background is either white or has artifacts. I have tried creating a new transparent background layer, enlarging, adding the drop shadow, cropping as needed and saving as gif or png with transparency selected to no avail. Let me know if there's another way.
Thanks for any help

Are you trying to hide the background behind the ciclid? So that only the fish shows? thats what a female convict right? or very young male.
Edit: i see now trying to get the picture its self to show a shadow.

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