Graphics

I'm designing a player stat card and need to put a drop shadow on the headshot. By this i mean a simple copy of the headshot that is blurred, filled with black, and offset from the original. Looking through the forum it seems like this is possible, but my Xpression operators don't know how. Is this possible? 

you can add a drop shadow from the "effects" tab if you want. I have taken to building a material that is a generic head shot shadow. I layer it under the head shot. I was told that drop shadows can take a lot of processing.