Quote Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
That's pretty cool. I think I'm getting hypnotized or something. Sometime just start applying all manner of filters to your image and watch what happens. It makes some darn interesting stuff, you get to learn what things do, and you can always undo.
That's pretty much what I did to come up with those images. No method to the madness, really. A little Difference Clouds here, some Plastic Wrap there, a few other random filter effects & layering, then Voila! - polychromatic insanity! If I make something cool with it later I might turn it into an avatar.

I've got a slightly older (legal) copy of CS2, and on my Vaio it'll open up in just a few seconds. On the home PC (a 10,000 year old HP), it takes much, much, MUCH longer. Luckily, I rarely have to use that infernal contraption.