Your filter radius is set far too low, boost it up to ~.6 at the very least. You'll get rid of the aliasing and fuzziness, the flame will be much smoother, and the render quality will overall just be higher. It'll increase the render time a bit, but if you click "post-process after rendering" in the render window, you can keep the FR low for the main render, then boost it in post.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for that tid-bit of info, I'm still learning all the in's and out's of Apophysis but i'm getting all the basics down. Nothing worthy of showing here yet other then the few pieces. I'll continue to play and adjust till I can seek out my own style.

I wish you the best of luck! I encourage you to browse through some apophysis and fractal centric groups over on deviantArt. There are tons of resources for new fractalists; tutorials, plug-ins for apophysis, and many helpful people. There are a few folks on here that do fractal art, so seek them out (myself included) if you ever have a question! Fractal art is a new medium that's still growing and gaining acceptance, you'll be hard-pressed to find people in it who will refuse to help or are complete asses.

Oh I've already been looking over what is offered on DA, lots of helpful tutorials for beginners. And thanks, think i'll sneak in a watch on you and your work, you have a lot of interesting pieces

Well, you're certainly off to the right start then!

And thank you very much!

My first thing i wanted to create was the hearts i was seeing everywhere. Tried and tried on my own but all i could create was scrambled eggs.. and I do mean scrambled.. Was a tutorial that finally steered me right. Might i ask that you include some your recipes with your work so others like me can understand how you was able to create your work?

I don't want to include parameters in the submission descriptions as they take up way too much damn space, and in all honesty, most people don't use them, and when they are, the origin is often not credited. I'd be more than happy to send you the parameters of some of my fractals in a PM though provided that if you submit something using them that you credit the original work! I may have used variation plug-ins that you don't have in 2.08, so be aware that it might not look exactly like how I have it!

Thats understandable and I always give credit where it is due. Yeah, i though t of that too about most people not understanding the parameters. And of course, anything you'd care to share, i'd be delighted to accept and try for myself

Just send me a note with a list and if I still have the parameters floating around I'll send 'em over!