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

[blastryoku]

Hmmm...around 6 layers i use, that might increase with how much dialogues and speech bubbles they are in the page though.

[Kamikaze]

Well over 100 usually, and if there's crowd shots or vehicles then that's at least a good bump up to 200+. Of course, that's just the Ink and paint portion. With compositing we flatten a lot of those layers down, and then add about 50+ more.

For a banner we were making at one point Photoshop just said, "NOPE. Not doing this anymore!" It wouldn't even save the file in normal PSD format (and that was WITH the character art flattened to a single layer, and the background flattened too).

Proof:

[masterstylezero]

lol! it's pretty simple 1/Collect Underpants 2/? 3/ Profit

[Zannen00]

It wouldn't even save the file in normal PSD format (and that was WITH the character art flattened to a single layer, and the background flattened too).

WOW!! Is it because of the Resolution size?

[fanyart]

Huh? It didn't save it automatically as psb? Mine does it every time it exceeds the file size without bothering me with it.

[jessiepolfliet]

About 15 I think, since I merge the most layers I know I won't need single anymore. And that's in PSD

[Kamikaze]

Honestly, I'm not sure WHY it didn't do that automatically, but it sure as heck scared us before we realized what was happening!

[Kamikaze]

Yeah, pretty sure it was. This was for a banner we were creating for our booth at a local convention. Cool stuff, but very, very large. This thing wasn't done in inches it was measured in feet. x.X

[allenthomas]

Excluding text I think I usually have between 5-9 layers. With text it'll be about 15 or so. If I'm using alot of effects on a particular page, I'd say my total layers would be close to 20.

[marzial09]

mine has 40 to 50 layers....and they're all separated in folders to avoid confusion later on :v

[Spinester]

I think I usually end up around 15 or so... This is my starting point and I usually end up with a few layers of shades.

Panels
Text layers
Inks
Pencils
Flats
Shades
Textures/overlays
Perspective

[DragonPena]

Always 4 layers, one for black and white artwork, the other formthe colored artwork, other for dialogue bubbles, the last for Sfx sounds and dialogue..
I wish I could put more layers but I do my comics on my tablet using sketchbook pro which only lets me use 4 layers on the biggest canvas size 1649x2660

Btw what's the biggest canvas size in the programs you use? Is there a layer limit?

[blastryoku]

I use CSP and i use a canvas of 9921x14031 pixels, yeah, i like to draw in a very big canvas that way i can resize it in whatever size i want and not losing quality.
I don't know what is the layer limit in CSP.

[Silerna]

Too much layers to count. I got copies of my copies >_>

[DragonPena]

CSP

O.O that's a lot. What's CSP?

[blastryoku]

CSP is Clip Studio Paint, in the west it's known more by the name of Manga Studio 5, CSP's developer is Celsys and the western publisher is SmithMicro.
Though it seems Celsys have found a loophole in their contract with SmithMicro and it has published Clip Studio Paint in english for the west market.
So there are 2 versions of the same software now in the west, Manga Studio 5 and Clip Studio Paint.

[stephensharpe707]

I thought I was bad for layers, it depends on the content of page but it can be anywhere from 15-30ish, not including text.
I have a weird thing for keeping characters and backgrounds separated, so I tend to make a lot more work for myself that I don't show off anyway!

[balalaikayon]

My very average number of layers is 150. It can go up to 250 layers if I need to work on details.

[Strontium]

On every comic page I definitely have the following layers, in order:
- box (stroke outline of the panels)
- the text
- bbs (word balloons) and fill
- sfx
- MW (make white; these are action lines)
- lines (the character lineart)
- clipping group coloring for lines
- color fill for lines
- bgk (background lines)
- clipping group coloring for bgk
- color fill for bkg
- white canvas fill

However there can always be MORE layers, such as when I'm drawing panels that stretch behind the regular panels, glowing effects, any kind of magical energy, and when I need to shade in characters or do gradient and lighting effects. I'd say I max out at 35-40 layers, especially since I eliminate all my sketch layers when I go from [file name lines] to [file name color]

[papayaman1000]

One. If I need to modify my images past the base art, I use Google Drawings.

...Yeah.