...Among other things. Last year I had the misfortune to submit a rather nice photograph to a literary magazine whose editors though that it'd be a neat idea to take my picture and apply that swirly distortion filter to it without telling me. Used the factory settings, too. The lens flare is really the least of it- it's just that a good deal of the stuff is kinda nifty to play with, but ANY really obvious Photoshopping is gonna pretty much end up looking corny, and like the creator's a fifteen-year-old kid whose never seen the program before. Everyone knows what the Solarize filter looks like by now- the trick is to learn to use it so that it looks cool, and isn't readily identifiable as a stock filter. And everything in there has its use, but it's generally pretty specific. Some filters that come standard I've never used, and likely never will.
