Space — The Final Frontier. I know I've heard that phrase somewhere before, but it's getting confused with another phrase: "All Your Plug-In Are Belong To Us." Well, anyway, click at left to see what happens when geezers begin to create galaxies.

This uses the presets from the earlier portion, but with different blending modes so they may not look the same.

OK, Hue and Cry and the Flood work are among the lamest things I've done in a while.

I've got to put more time into working with Flood so that the waterline isn't always straight.

Hue and Cry has yet to "grab" me; right now I think Super Blade Pro gives me a lot more options as far as creating texture/patterns.

Melancholytron was kind of fun but that was 12 hours ago; perhaps if I'd given the others a try while I was still working on the third cuppaJoe, I'd like them, too.

Designer Sextet: Now this one I had fun with. I've been playing around for awhile with the idea of applying various filters to photographs, based on the Brightness channel in Photoshop's Lab mode. This morning, on the fourth cuppaJoe and second sausage, egg and cheese from Subway, I figured out how.

1. Take an RGB photo (jpg, preferably) and Image > Duplicate it.
2. Using the copy, Image > Mode > Greyscale it, then Image > Adjust > Posterize and use 5 for the number of levels. Now you've basically got five levels: black, dark grey, grey, light grey, and white.
3. For each of the five levels, do the following:

• Use the Magic Wand tool to select the level
• On the Channels palette, click New Channel from Selection button. The part that was selected will now show up in white; everything else will be black.
• Select > All, Edit > Copy
• Go to the Color version of the photo. On the Channels palette, click New Channel, then Edit > Paste. Double click the new line in the Channels palette and name it after the level. This way you'll remember which channel is which level.

1. (This should be step 4, but I have the same trouble with Word and I don't have the patience to argue with Dreamweaver to get it right.) When you've got all five levels each in a channel by itself, save the Color photo as a Photoshop document (.psd). Now if you screw things up, you'll at least be able to get this back. The hard part's over.
2. (5, remember) Select > Load Selection and pick one of the levels; if you want to apply the same effect to more than one level Select > Load Selection and pick another level but be sure the Add to Selection button is clicked.
3. (6, isn't this sickening?) Now apply your effect.

So that's what I did to the photo at left. The numbers in the titles refer to the levels I used, according to the following pattern:

1. Black
2. Dark Grey
3. Grey
4. Light Grey
5. White

I had a lot of fun with this; I hope you do, too.

Construct web set using any filter or combination of filters; post any presets you use -- I didn't do this. I may get to it later on, but I'd really rather finish the story I started in Week Four.

Find out what "frames for Paint Shop Pro 7" are and create a couple using any combination of filters. I didn't do this one either and probably won't. I've got my own way of doing frames; if you want to see a set of them, click here; it should take you to a Christmas gallery I did for my church's website. I handcrafted each of the frames, but I didn't have any of these filters at the time -- just Blade Pro.