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I found a very nice solution on http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/81842/creating-a-drop-shadow-with-guassian-blur

It certainly looks like its exactly what you are looking for, and I was also. Next thing is I'd like to make this part of a class or a module.

Let me know how you go.
Cheers ...

I use Lyx. I encountered the same problem. I put a graphic before the title and inserted a page break. So I insert the graphic and the title name and mark them as title.
Then in between the graphic and title name I added TeX code \\[1cm]

So in the source it looks like
\title{\noindent ...