Adobe also offers free the Software Development Kit for Photoshop
5 plugins, which includes documentation in PDF format
and sample code, with a couple of sample filters, the only usable
one being the Shape filter.
They have released Force BW, a little plugin to help you
get pure white or pure black when indexing colors in PS.
Finally, their PhotoDeluxe software includes two no-settings filters
: Page Curl and Remove Red Eyes ; and also an import
plugin for .wmf vector files.
Thousands of useful Actions can be found at Adobe's ActionXchange.