many thanks for your encouraging words guys. I am finding this business with the guidelines difficult to understand, and don't really want to get into the 'I'm on this side or the other side' arguement. For me its a question of working intuitively with the programs I use to produce a piece of digital art. I have found that fractals have allowed me to do this with great freedom. All post processing I use is my own work, created and developed in photoshop, illustrator, or my digital camera. I think my images belong in the fractal gallery, but since this heavy discussion started I've been very unsure, this feeling was added to when some of my images were moved into the mixed medium gallery, so there you have it, one confused lady! btw, can someone enlighten me on what yesitis means by 'tubes' (see next message)? peace and bright bessings to you all and thanks for taking the time to reply, with love ~ aramina

peace and bright blessings