Depends on the picture. I tend to have one for each subject (if they overlap), one for the middleground, and one for the background. Sometimes if I have a nifty sky going on, the sky gets its own layer behind the background.
I know digital lineart is Teh Thing, but I've never had the patience for it. So I do my lineart on paper and scan that, thereby saving myself all kinds of layer issues. And I'm with Thalia on this one ... too many layers and my compy starts hanging up.
Now, if you asked about file resolution, that would be interesting ... I keep everything about 200 DPI, because 300 and up make my computer choke once I add more than 3 layers.
Hoo-ah, an art question I can answer sort of!! I made a giant structural geology map of doom on CorelDraw. The most layers I've used is 20. I just find it's all involved in how you like to organize things.
I kept the same thing on the same layer...like a magnetic anomaly map on one layer, the geological survey's crappy wrong map on another, my own mega mega scanned map which I constructed in a manner far to similar to A Beautiful Mind on another, memos to myself on another one, question marks on another, and the final version for complete idiots on another. :D
Mm... Well you shouldn't listen to me as closely because it's not very often that I get long enough on the computer to CG...
But I've definitely added layers as time passed. In the beginning, I used one--smart me. :P However, browsing the net and observing those more skilled--or at least more experienced--than me taught me why to use multiple layers.
I'm not exactly sure what's the max I've used... I'd guestimate around 10, simply because I've never CG'd anything with a complex background and have only colored the characters themselves, plus once a simple bg. Anything beyond that... yeah, I'm still working my way up. :P
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I know digital lineart is Teh Thing, but I've never had the patience for it. So I do my lineart on paper and scan that, thereby saving myself all kinds of layer issues. And I'm with Thalia on this one ... too many layers and my compy starts hanging up.
Now, if you asked about file resolution, that would be interesting ... I keep everything about 200 DPI, because 300 and up make my computer choke once I add more than 3 layers.
I need a new computer.
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Something like one for the lineart, one for the color and maybe a couple of others for text or some special effect.
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I kept the same thing on the same layer...like a magnetic anomaly map on one layer, the geological survey's crappy wrong map on another, my own mega mega scanned map which I constructed in a manner far to similar to A Beautiful Mind on another, memos to myself on another one, question marks on another, and the final version for complete idiots on another. :D
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But I've definitely added layers as time passed. In the beginning, I used one--smart me. :P However, browsing the net and observing those more skilled--or at least more experienced--than me taught me why to use multiple layers.
I'm not exactly sure what's the max I've used... I'd guestimate around 10, simply because I've never CG'd anything with a complex background and have only colored the characters themselves, plus once a simple bg. Anything beyond that... yeah, I'm still working my way up. :P
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