They are not actually bitmap brushes . but it is really weird - must be something to do with the fractal transparency. I tried extracting the shape and creating the brush from scratch. Still it reverts to black.

Could be that Xara is changing the line colour as the line size changes - I have seen this happen before - but it has always shown in the line colour box that it has reverted to the default black.

Christine

[This message was edited by Christine Farrelly on September 01, 2001 at 21:39.]