Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
pita ron

had time to look closer and if you take the feathering out of the penclip then it behaves - although that also alters the effect at the edge of the glass ball [maybe I made a mistake ]

I think the program is mis-reading the order/way it applies effects on initial render for some reason

short of the obvious - select all, copy to clipboard, delete all, paste back in place, nothing to suggest for work already done
Thanks, Steve.
I opened your file and examined what you did. Yes, that worked. Still puzzled as to why what I had originally done would cause that problem. Hmm