I spent days on this one; Either the Curtains Go or I Do wins the award for the Best-Named Filter and also one of most interesting effects I've ever found for free. By the way, this will also solve the Mystery of the Parrot.

I had a lot of fun with this one, most of which won't show here, but I wanted to get started on cataloging Kang's filters. Some of them are really cool!Yeah, the names are weird, but the effects are clearly from someone with a 60s' mentality, so it can be forgiven.

Use AFH Bevellers or NVT Borderman to produce quick beveled buttons. Since neither of these folks bothered to cross-compile their filters, I decided to use KPT5's shape-shifter to produce a trio of button sets. Total time for all three: 28 minutes. For me, that's quick; I can bit-twiddle these things for hours, getting the lighting just right, moving the top side of the bevel so that it's not so annoyingly symmetrical, adjusting the transparency of the effect so that the pattern shows through just a little bit more. And then it strikes me -- these things are at most 100 pixels square, the effects don't show up at that size, and furthermore, they're navigation devices, not works of art!

For the most part, MediaSpark stuff left me cold. When I started to play with different blending modes and transparency values, I began to see some use for it -- but for the most part, I figure it's worth every penny I paid for it.

Use RBG Lights to filter 3 duplicates of the same image with different lighting effects

OR

Filter 2-3 different images and combine them to one final results.

Oh, goodie! Another set of one-legged filters. I will resist the temptation here to get on my soap box. I will! I Will! I WILL! Ok, now that's passed. What I did instead was to play for a while with Photoshop's built-in lighting effects, using the RGB lighting preset and varying which channel was used for texture: Red, Green and Blue. The results, quite frankly, are nothing to write home about, but at least I learned something more about that particular preset.

Fill out the evaluation form. Off to do this, as soon as I once again fight the UNIX battle with Geocities! Thanks to all for the good words. It's been a pleasure. Wish me luck in my interview as a photo editor for Weekly World News. (nudge, *nudge*, wink! wink!)