Testing textures

It's a little like being addicted to cheap paperback romance novels,
but I have a soft spot for the "textured" photos that have been one of
the mainstays of popular photography for a decade. So I downloaded a
programme called Topaz Textures, just to see what it does.

Over-the-toppist could be my middle name. This was a fairly ordinary
highway picture that I turned into an over-the-top faux oil painting.
I can see me making pictures like this to make fun of myself.

By the way, this picture started in my OM-D E-M1 as an Olympus raw
file (.orf) which wasn't exceptionally big, but it was saved as a 121
MB file by Topaz. It was reduced down to 4 MB by Picasa for mailin
and posting.