Picture to thumbnail icon

For many years I've been using two apps to convert pictures into thumbnail icons for my desktop - Pic2Icon and Thumbnail Pro. Now I've switched to Leopard and they no longer work. They make an icon, but the drop shadow function and other functions don't work so the icons are just flat and not as nice.
Do you know of any software for Mac that can take a JPEG or PNG file and make a thumbnail icon with a drop shadow?
Thanks for your time,
Scott

Hi jsd2,
Thanks for that suggestion of CocoThumbX. I downloaded it and it did create a thumbnail picture, however when viewing it in 'Columns' view, the large area of 'border' around the image (in the form of a black film strip) means the image is scaled down so much that it is difficult to see what it is and I generally still have to click on it to force Preview to open in the next column to allow me to see which clip it is. I know I could use 'Icons' view, but I'm also converting some files to MPEG4 using iSquint, and when the 'Add' window opens in iSquint to allow me to select the file/s I want to convert I have the problem of the tiny images not being quite big enough for me to decipher what they are. The original thumbnail pictures (when it decides it will display a thumbnail picture!) are only marginally bigger but it is still better.
I've tried to get rid of the black border in the CocoThumbX thumbnails in the hope that the image can then fill the entire allocated space, but cannot find a way. Do you know if it can be removed, or possibly of another utility that has no border?
I would appreciate your further advice, thanks.
Cheers,
Lehla

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