Red fringing

With some filters, such as the barbed wire and lace filters, I am getting red fringing around what should be a black image. It shows up late in the process, and persists when I save the image.

Is this:
1 - Inherent in the way the filters are creating the images

2 - Because I'm using VMWare and Win2000 under Linux?

3 - Because my graphics card sucks?

So far, seen it on these. I'm using them to make decorative braid for clothing, black or shades of black/grey on transparent.

http://www.filterforge.com/filters/5113.html (ribbons and wires)
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/4050.html (chain or scroll)

My workaround is to convert them to greyscale, but I lose some of the richness and shine.

It's a problem when I have dark components and a transparent background, such as this black filagree pattern. I forgot to write down which filter I was using for this, but the fringing happens late in the rendering, which makes me think it's a sharpen or blur.

is this a surface type filter or a simple? if it's a surface type, try changing the surface color to white.

also, what happens if anti-aliasing is turned off?

interesting.

so, is this a surface type filter or a simple?

and when's the last time you updated your video card drivers?

in the main GUI, on the left where the presets and controls are, just above there there are either three or four tabs. if three they will say 'presets', 'settings' and 'about'. if four they will say 'presets', 'settings', 'lighting' and 'about'. if it has the four it's a surface type. if it only has three then it's a simple.

win 2k on linux thru vmware... now that's about as strange as it gets. no clue how that might affect your vid card. but, if when you turn off the anti-aliasing the fringe goes away, i would ask what type of machine are you running all this on and what type of video card and are you running directx 9.0c or some earlier version? and is your video card compatible with the new shader technology and such?

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The VMware virtual machine does not take full advantage of the video card's ability

i think that's your answer right there.