Impressionist Filter (Plug in?)

I'm looking for an artistic filter that gives an Impressionist painting effect. Searched the Forum knowledgebase and found one entry by Terri Foster referring to a plugin from www.trimoon.com/html/down . When I tried to go to that site, I got an inaccessible page message.
Anyone know of such a filter; and/or how to access the inaccessible page. Or where else can I find such a filter?
I have seen the Impressionist filter discussed in relation to Ulead PhotoImpact, but not too many other places. Would hate to have to buy the whole Ulead program for just this one thing.
Al Millstein

Al,
I found a couple really good threads about using the Impressionist plugin while lurking about Retouch Pro.
Edited because I posted wrong thread on one of these:
first thread
second thread
another thread but I haven't read through this one yet
Terri

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