That is friggin' gorgeous.
I'm jealous!
The gradients and shading are a thing of beauty.

Thanks for the encouragment, Meowza! I was just trying to figure out how to use Phoenix... I've been playing with Peacock too much. :).

It was an adventure for sure! The gradients would have been easier but the magic wand selection tool left about a 1px margin when I would fill with a gradient... So I had to import the rendered image back into a fresh copy of the original (I couldn't get it to load a new copy of the original back into the one I was working on) and then blur the edges...

I would love more control on the gradients, like what angle they're rendered at... it would make it much easier to do shaded things... right now all your highlights have to either come from the left or right. I also was experiencing some bugs with the paintbrush tool when I was doing highlights/shadows which would have made things easier.

But it was a fun project to figure out how to get around Phoenix!

FYI...(If I'm understanding your predicament)
When you make a selection with the magic wand tool. You can then go to the select menu and choose Modify>Expand. Then you can expand your selection by 1 or 2 pixels or so. This will get rid of the 1px margin you were getting. As long as you have your line layer as the top layer set to multiply, you'll have no problems.

Good job on this....you found your own work around and it came out great.

phischer said: FYI...(If I'm understanding your predicament)
When you make a selection with the magic wand tool. You can then go to the select menu and choose Modify>Expand. Then you can expand your selection by 1 or 2 pixels or so. This will get rid of the 1px margin you were getting. As long as you have your line layer as the top layer set to multiply, you'll have no problems.

Good job on this....you found your own work around and it came out great.

Thanks, Phischer.

I actually figured the expand selection out after I had already done about 80% of the gradients. It was a pain enough switching back and forth between the magic wand and gradient tool (and adjusting the gradients which takes a while because the endpoints don't always respond to the double click and it doesn't default to the dropper tool) for each of the hundred or so "gradient areas" I was trying to fill. Just too many steps... If they add actions it will be a lot easier. I need to write up the list of bugs and suggestions soon.