I think adding postwork makes it more "artisticly mine". Especially with apophysis.Here lately Ive taken basic flames and added my own "vision" to it with psp.Sometimes,if its beyond being recognisable as the starting flame,I'll add the starter into the finished piece. Like so: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=641960&Start=1&Artist=Cyble13&ByArtist=Yes. With Eye of the Dragon,it wasnt very interesting with just a nice texture and had a dead black spot in the lower corner. I selected that spot with the magic wand and used the kaliedoscope tool in psp to spin the original flame into something interesting to fill the spot.I STILL had a dead spot within that space,so I selected it again and spun it around once more.It' all still the same flame.

I think I,myself,would be upset if someone deleted my image from an art site either way.You'd think,if it was art,even if it WAS in a category that someone else thought it didnt belong in,that they'd be respectful enough to ask you to move it into the right(?) category FIRST.Thats assuming they know enough about your picture to know HOW you made it and KNOW that it's definately NOT a fractal...unless somewhere,maybe,in their category list there's a specific mention of posting ONLY "pure" fractals??