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What amazes me is that this is even a topic that is up for discussion. To me, that's like asking a photographer if he thinks it's wise to tweak his work as he develops in the darkroom, or a musician if his music is pure because he used a synthesizer. Of course you wouldn't, but some people in this community still think if you post process your images you're going straight to hell. It shouldn't even be a question, if fractal art is indeed *an* art and not just a panoply of formulae. Mathemeticians do not artists make.

Art is either good or bad. Whether you post process your images until they look like a pile of crap or you can't crop a pure fractal image to save your life, the end result is generica at best, and garbage at worst. If you don't have an artist's eye you're going to create crap, whether you use filters or not.

I always giggle when someone posts a UF image and says, "ninety two layers, no post processing!" as if not post processing a fractal is some kind of great achievement and all that layering didn't constitute post processing.

I only hope that when burgeoning fractal artists find these fractal web communities, they aren't intimidated or affected by these absurd judgements. What a shame that would be.

Mindy