Terry, I see your point. Please don't put words in my mouth. I do respect and admire good art no matter how it was created, including post processed fractals. Matt, for example, has made some spectacular images with fractals in Photoshop. I didn't give it a second thought when I saw his images, I only admired it. This thread started out with the question about how many of us feel the need to explain and even excuse ourselves when we mention post processing on our images. I was only trying to explain why I did it. Beyond that you can read whatever you want to in my statements. I'm done.