Well, as anyone who'd care to check out my few renderings here might notice, I personally prefer to use a bare minimum of postwork in my own pics - To burn in shadows or tweak a color value. But, I've also seen some startlingly beautiful or moving images that have been postworked so thoroughly, that I couldn't tell what was Poser and what was Photoshoped. A pixel is a pixel, whether placed by the precise calculations of a sophisticated rendering engine, or a differential recalc of color values based on a casual click-sweep of the mouse in a paint program. It takes two to make art. An artist, and a viewer. The medium is just the language used to express the art. Digital Mixed Media seems as valid as any other means of expression. . . .just my two cents worth; opposing views expected and encouraged . . . G