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I pretty much fucked up. Help please? by Iakhot

I was streaming a pic, and I was on phone at the same time... And without realizing it, I merged the wrong layers and kept drawing on it, at the point that I couldn't go back in history to cancel it, nor I could do anything else in fact.

So... I merged the final linework layer to the shitty pose sketches, which is itself on the background....

http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/05/1391196045-capture.png

The black lines are final lines. The transparent, colored (or not) lines are to be removed (or at least taken apart)... Does anyone knows what I could do, knowing that I need the layer to be completely clean aside from these black lines (as I slip the color layers under it) ?

Thanks...

I pretty much fucked up. Help please?

Iakhot

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    Irbis

    Hmm, been a while since I messed with art, but I did some work with layers. I'd say... can you destroy the sketchlines with color select?

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      Iakhot

      No idea. How would you do that? When I do that in photoshop it's always lacks precision IMO, besides I need to make everything disappear besides the lines as I intend to put layers underneath.

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        Irbis

        Magic lasso and 'select region by colour' are all I can think of. I'm an author-editor and only very rarely enter photoshop, I'm afraid.

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    Alioth

    Hmm... I've done this a few times. Usually the way I "fix" it is by lowering the opacity of the layer in question, then just creating a new layer and retracing the lines on top of it. Not... an ideal solution, I realize, but it's usually about the only option, as far as I know.

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      Iakhot

      Not a solution at all in my case, considering all the stuff that's gonna be under the lines. I'm just gonna clean them out manually...

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        CrayoningKerfuffle

        i'm confused? how is re-inking not a solution? cuz it sounded like they were implying re-inking the pic.

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    Zalcoti

    If you used one color for the sketch, it would have been super easy to get rid of the sketch lines using color channels. But you used a rainbow so it's not so easy anymore. I'll have to go with Alioth on this and just redo the lineart.

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      Iakhot

      Certainly not gonna redo the linework, it took me long enough. I always made the sketches out of multiple colors because they're inaccurate, therefore I need to differentiate stuff when for instance I have an arm over the body and such.

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        Zalcoti

        Well if you feel patient enough, and if you have Photoshop, turn all the sketch lines you don't want into the red color you used. After that, go into channels in Photoshop and delete Blue than Magenta. Turn the file to greyscale in Image - Mode - Greyscale. Do the same but choose RGB to turn it back to a color file.

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    LilMonster

    I'm kinda with Alioth on this one, just put a new layer on top of it all, drop the opacity on the mess up and redraw the whole thing via tracing. Either that or just start all over. SUcks but, not many options at this point.