IMO, postwork is good. It's a tool, so why don't use it? I agree with sambucus, sometimes one even feels guilty if he uses it. And this I really don't understand. I use it in my pictures when I think they will be improved by the use of it, or when I want to avoid waiting six days to the render to finish, like Rochr just said. Two of my latest, the Interior Studies you appreciated so well (thanx again to all), were without postwork and I wrote it in the caption, but only *because* I was trying to demonstrate something to myself.

The above is an example. I used postwork to add the "misty/smokey/dreamy" feel, to motion-blur the metrotrain and to add the glow. Which one is better?

S.