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Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: Justin on 12 Oct 2005, 14:51

for example, i accidently saved a low res version (http://www.mastersoftheart.com/files/mariebathingsuit.jpg) of a drawing over the high res copy. is there nothing i can do but redraw the whole thing? it took so long... :(

Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: Sonet on 12 Oct 2005, 16:53

Does your computer have GoBack, or any comparable method of reverting your hard drive to a previous state? That would do it... unless the last saved state happens to be before you did the drawing... Other than that, I'm not sure. But if it's that important to you, there should be some method of getting it back, with some high-level computery prowess.

Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: torg on 13 Oct 2005, 03:08

thats an amazingly good drawing.

some graphics programs save backup copies before saving the changed pic. try to find out if your program does so.
you could also scale it up, use filters for sharpening (? right word?) and just correct the errors produced by that step.
or scale it up, use a colour selction tool and copy each colour to a new layer. after doing that you can sharpen it or erase artefacts or just redraw the eges.

Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: Justin on 13 Oct 2005, 04:22

Quote from: Sonet

Does your computer have GoBack, or any comparable method of reverting your hard drive to a previous state? That would do it... unless the last saved state happens to be before you did the drawing... Other than that, I'm not sure. But if it's that important to you, there should be some method of getting it back, with some high-level computery prowess.

i tried that, but unfortunately the last time it saved was over a month ago, so no good.

Quote from: torg

thats an amazingly good drawing.

some graphics programs save backup copies before saving the changed pic. try to find out if your program does so.
you could also scale it up, use filters for sharpening (? right word?) and just correct the errors produced by that step.
or scale it up, use a colour selction tool and copy each colour to a new layer. after doing that you can sharpen it or erase artefacts or just redraw the eges.

thanks for the compliment! i worked very hard on it.

i ended up just spending a couple hours and redrawing it, apparently there is an feature in adobe illustrator that traces work for you, so that might've saved me some time in the rebuilding process, but i couldn't find my copy of illustrator. oh well, from now on i will save two sperate copies of every time consuming work, lesson learned.

Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: torg on 17 Oct 2005, 11:12

btw, i read your comic. its on my daily list now ;)

Title: when you screw up hardcore, what do you do?
Post by: Justin on 18 Oct 2005, 20:26

oh wow, thanks! we update on mondays and fridays ;)