Attached Link: There is no such animal as post processing

There is no such thing as post work on a fractal or any piece of art for that matter unless you are talking about framing and glass. All the work that you do to accomplish your desired results is just artwork. Lighting a fractal is no different than adding white or paynes gray oil paint to other colors to achieve light and dark. Although fractals so stand alone unlike other forms of art, some are far more interesting in context. In my opinion this flap over post processing is just one of snobbery. Rembrandt used to spit on his canvas to thin out some paint. Was that post processing? Virginia