CompuServe Thread

Hello Ive been thinking about getting Penello so Ive been working with the demo . I ran across what looks like a significant problem, at least for the kind of work I would do. The preview shoes vertical and sometimes horizontal lines across the image. Heres one of the setups I used to get the grid. Brush: brush.tif; Strokes: 66 ,0, 0 (12610) I also had the same problem at a variety of stroke settings, but at settings where the strokes overlap a lot the grid is not as apparent. Seed: any that I tried for example 631; Mixing: composite; Layering: random; Brush color; source 0,0,0; Background: solid black; Size: constant 10,0,0; Angle: constant -12, -180,0; Opacity: constant, 100, 0, 0 ;Source stand in: I tried several, complex images dont show the effect well. I used a flat grey 640×480 tga for a clear look at the grid effect. Can you reproduce this? Can it be fixed? Even though this problem only shows up under certain conditions, it concerns me because the images I intend to brush have large flat or gradated areas where this would show up. As the image, brushes and other paramaters animate a grid would appear and disappear in the scene. Ive got Painter 3 which will do about half of what Penello can do. I dont like the idea of yet another dongle to add to the 5 Ive got, and of course Penello is very expensive. On the other hand Penello would be so much easier to use than Painter for the work I want to do that I was very seriously considering it until I ran into this problem. I look foward to your reply, Ed