What is your average number of layers, on your finished work?

[Zannen00]

I usually end up with about average of 20-25 layers in total
per page more or less depending on the number of panel/stuff on the page.

Thats only in Black&White! XD

How about you guys?

[SpavVy]

MANY xD I merge them later but not any special effect kind of layer like illuminate or screen, those ones I leave alone.

[ghostnxs]

At least 5 any more depends on the word ballons and sfx.

[goenn]

Oh geez, a lot!!! I don't merge them, in case there's like a mistake or something. Then I can fix it easily.

Not bad like this

I just hope it doesnt crash my program DDD:

[zelkats]

"Speechbubs".... Don't mind if I borrow that because that's too damn adorable lol.

As for my comic pages, I think each of them has an average of 42 layers.

[StevenDacasin]

I use photshop to edit son its only like 4-5 layers. But I might try to make my speech bubbles in photoshop.

[Raven_C]

Depends but I try not to exceed ten layers. Usually around 5 is enough.

[RiverKai]

I usually have around 30 if it's colored, and anywhere from 10-30 for black and white depending on complexity.

[joannekwan]

For Demon House which is in color, I'd say 40 give or take.
Heavy Horns has about 20 since it's black and white.

[winglesscomic]

SFX: 2-3 layers
Shading: 3-5 layers
Lineart: 3 layers
Colour: 1 layer
Background:

[MylCreates]

Mmm usually 5- 20, for Hacheeachkee, Death Prince though usually has 40-60, one time I counted and it had almost 90 layers e_____e ah jeeze

[Zannen00]

@MylCreates 90?!! How long does it take to open the psd file?? (OcO)

@winglesscomic

[MylCreates]

Sometimes 2-4 minutes >3>

[abbastudios]

Around 5 for Tapastic. Anything more creates unnecessary large files. I may use more than 5, but I collapse on the way and at the end.

Panel boders
Text
Balloons
Line art
Color

[ratique]

I think the final photoshop file with the art has around 40 to 50, because I don't flatten my background art. If I would, it would probably drop down to 5 to 10 layers.

Then I move over to Adobe Illustrator, where I have 4 layers: Text, Bubbles, Copyright line, Links (which are the photoshop files).
All pages are nicely sorted in one illustrator document.

[TAMAnnoying]

Depends on what I'm doing. for a piece of art I try to stick to 1-3 layers
Morgan and dragons has about 10
and comics that I do on the side like Grogthor and jennet have up to 20 at times

That is of course after I've merged all the excess layers without merging those the numbers are doubled WHILE the pages are in development (to see which way id rather the hair to be drawn or the person to be standing and such). I try to keep the numbers down tho :v cause... i don't know... i think someone told me too a long time ago for a reason i don't remember X'D

[rainbowolfe]

Well, for Destiny Awaits I use a measly 4 layers XD

But for this other comic I have in the works, I use about 7!

[Dranif]

About 2-4 layers per panel.
1 layer for line art, one layer for color, and if the background is complex, 1 layer for the background's line art, and 1 layer for the background's color.

[AnnaLandin]

It depends on the page - pages with more complex lighting arrangements obviously require more layers - but I average somewhere between 10-20. Another thing that can drive up the number of layers is how many sketch-layers I need; some things require a lot of sketching. In this particular example - a page from chapter 3 of Grassblades, with a bunch of rimlighting and extra effects between panels - I've got 15, and that's because I've kept my sketch-layers in the file, although invisible.

I do my inking for the backgrounds on one layer, and the inking of the characters on a separate layer - this is because I tend to colour the lines, and like to keep the outlines of the characters darker, and that's easier to do when they're on separate layers. Also, it's easier to ink them separately so that I don't accidentally erase something when I have to fix a line in the background or something.

I also colour the backgrounds on one layer, and keep the colours for the characters on a separate layer - again for the same reason.

I do shadows on a separate layer set to multiply, and adjust lighting with an overlay-layer, and do rim-lighting and extra lighting effects on a glow-dodge layer. I could simply paint all of those on the same colour layer, but that would take me infinitely longer to do.

[Kura]

I think if I round it up to an average... probably around 'Too friggen many'