SToyan Stefanov has posted some examples of what sort of output can be made with the imagefilter function in PHP.
Here's the list of filters he applies:
- Brightness
- Grayscale
- Contrast
- Colorize
- Edge Detect
- Emboss
- Gaussian Blur
- Selective Blur
- Mean Removal
- Smooth
- Negate
And, as a sort of a bonus, he includes a lazy way to make your image look like it's sepia toned.