Forgot to flatten my layers before exporting and spent an hour fixing it

Last Tuesday I was finishing up a commission piece for a client in Portland, a character illustration with like 40 layers. I was so excited to get it done that I hit export without checking if any hidden layers were blending wrong. When I opened the PNG it looked all washed out, took me a solid 45 minutes to trace back through my folder structure and realize a multiply layer was sitting on top of everything. Do you guys do a final layer audit before exporting or just yolo it like I did?

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the_wyatt19d ago

Multiply layer ruining the final export" hits close to home. I had a buddy who spent two hours tracking down a hidden overlay layer that turned his whole character green, and @faith_carter is right about collapsing groups before export.

faith_carter19d ago

Feel your pain on this one, I've done almost the same thing with a multiply layer ruining the final export. It's frustrating getting pulled away from the fun part of drawing just to troubleshoot your own file structure. Now I always collapse all my groups and do a quick scan before hitting save, learned that lesson the hard way too.