Maui Flowers - a la Pixel Bender
I discovered Adobe's Pixel Bender plugin for CS5 earlier today. I was intrigued by the Oil Painting filter, so I downloaded the plugin and gave it a shot tonight after work. Very impressed with the speed - because it leverages the GPU, updates are almost instant. Quick, easy, done. Here's the output of one experiment - a shot of Maui flowers taken during my last trip to the island.

