Colors! Glitch Fixed by Rogue Ranger

#tutorial Hours of work dissappearing? Whole layer gone? Watch this for the fix (at 2-3 times speed, depending on how fast you read). Technically it starts at the blue section, but there's not much intro, so you can play it all. This is my first animation/tutorial, so please be kind. FYI, no tracing, just a lot of undos and zooming in to use the edges of the bottom screen for straight lines. #rrtutorial

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12 Sep, 2012, 1:25 am
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Shida

12 Sep, 2012, 1:57 am

this has happend to me before and I was so P.O.d i deleted the whole thing! so THANK YOU for this :]

MyFaceYourFace

12 Sep, 2012, 2:03 am

This works but a fair warning, Though I'm not sure. But If you exceed the 6 hours of replay time, if anything drawn after the limit has past then it is sadly unrecoverable. This is on the Faq on the official website, also said on the faq when the release the ''update'' this will be fixed! Thank you. : ]

ShOtZ

12 Sep, 2012, 2:20 am

i learned of this but only needed it once but forgot and thats why most my art is 2-d

Rogue Ranger

12 Sep, 2012, 3:43 am

Thank you MyFaceYourFace for mentioning the 6 hour limit! I haven't reached it yet I guess.

zipz_zap

12 Sep, 2012, 6:52 pm

Thanks Rogue Ranger for taking your time to make this for the benefit of everyone! You're my hero *hugs*

Rogue Ranger

13 Sep, 2012, 7:40 am

Thank you, midnightsleep! It was actually your painting that gave me the idea. Plus, I've been looking for a reason to try out something that uses the playback feature. So I guess Imshould be thanking you. :)

fairyfingers883

13 Sep, 2012, 2:37 pm

hey thank you for commenting on my owl picture i dident think it was that good so you gave me a boost :) also thanks for th gitch tip that has happened to me before and i was so angry hahaha

Hummbirds

15 Sep, 2012, 11:01 am

Yeah, the 6 hour thing. :P And if your replay somehow messes up, it doesn't really work either. You would not believe how messed up playbacks can get. O.o Like on my Eevee pic. Man, there's no recovering that one.

penguinz02

15 Sep, 2012, 11:11 am

thats happend to me alot! Thank you SOOOO much!!:D

angelbear

16 Sep, 2012, 3:57 am

Thank you, this has happened to me also. Btw, like this, and thank you for your nice comments. :)

Weapon X

16 Sep, 2012, 4:11 am

This has never happened to me but you know you can also watch the reply and stop it at the part you wish to continue then go to manage painting then press branch. It's in the tutorial

lonjen

16 Sep, 2012, 2:13 pm

i dont get it

TrueRomoGuy

16 Sep, 2012, 4:48 pm

...or "branch" your painting

zipz_zap

16 Sep, 2012, 6:28 pm

Congrats for week's best, I'm glad you got it:). A sweet artist like you deserves more recognition.

kiyokokelly

17 Sep, 2012, 2:32 am

OMG, THANK YOU. You are a total LIVE SAVER. THANK YOU. Now I can finally finish this painting I have been working on for hours.

Aphelps

17 Sep, 2012, 6:26 am

Very nicely done animation. :)

nano43

17 Sep, 2012, 10:39 pm

I found this out a while ago. but good job!

Edwin_Lucas

18 Sep, 2012, 12:18 am

True!

Rogue Ranger

18 Sep, 2012, 3:06 am

Thank you! This ismy first animation, but maybe I'll try more after this encouragement.

The Bro

19 Sep, 2012, 3:30 am

I thought everybody knew about this.

roy1124

19 Sep, 2012, 5:14 am

felt like i was watching an infomercial

YamiMidna

23 Sep, 2012, 9:17 pm

I have known that fix too, but there´s an disadvantage: if you have drawn more than 6 hours, the video reaches his maximum capacity. So if that glitch appears after 8 hours of working you can only repair it till 6 hours... best is to copy your painting from time to time, you´re safer with that

Maseoluvstacos

23 Sep, 2012, 9:27 pm

That happened 2 my twin b4...He was so "smad"(Mad and sad)So u told colors about wut happened and they fixed it?I'm only 10.Comment if they updated it and it happened 2 you.(To the creator of this)

EvilDemonNeko

02 Oct, 2012, 10:14 am

I find this ironic because this video won't play though all of this.... X'D

Bomber-s_crew

02 Oct, 2012, 9:39 pm

One pf my drawings has a glitch... it's the one that has a green dragon flying through a wave of lava... :3

super*star

14 Oct, 2012, 12:30 pm

THANK YOU!!! 83

coolgirlkg

28 Oct, 2012, 4:23 pm

hey guess what if you press R then elts everything you do without taking the pen of rhe screen will dissapere realy (not whole painting just do the part again : )

fu[ker

05 Nov, 2012, 12:28 am

I like you so i'll tell you my fc is in my gallery

Sikoworks

08 Nov, 2012, 2:12 am

THAT HAPPENED TO ME >:L

Bowpmsas

11 Nov, 2012, 4:19 am

I hate it when that happens! :p

Riolu Lucario Fan

17 Nov, 2012, 4:21 pm

^^I was about to say that too.

SunRanger

19 Nov, 2012, 4:40 am

Wow! Glitches are EVERYWHERE on all websites! Like, YouTube, Bitstrips, and other stuff! But your art is very wonderful! *big thumbs up*

ajd123

23 Nov, 2012, 9:04 pm

THANK YOU! You, sir have saved the hundreds of my awesome unfinished paintings! By the way... how did you find that out???

Dara.Dara

27 Dec, 2012, 10:32 am

TNX realy!

The_Meaning

30 Dec, 2012, 4:28 am

thanks i thpught my drawings were gpners :O

Slantz

16 Jan, 2013, 1:41 pm

Hello. I was wondering if you could check my gallery because I had a strange glitch happen 3/4 of the way through the smash bros move set I was working on. I uploded it to my gallery as a precaution when I saw that the original had a glitched playback. If there's no way to fix it I can deal with the glitch but it's not preferable.

peachfanstar

27 Jan, 2013, 11:00 am

Helpful, but also never seen it happen. Also, there is the 6-hour limit.

hummingbirds2

19 Feb, 2013, 3:06 am

thank you :D

sheikha

19 Feb, 2013, 9:15 pm

thank u soo much for this!! i love all ur paintings, rr=) ur awsome^^

Pyrochrome

24 Feb, 2013, 1:28 am

ur a savior!

Esmer

24 Feb, 2013, 6:10 pm

Oh yes, this happened to me once. I overcame the problem by watching the painting sequence until my stuff appeared, then hit copy painting OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT asdfghjkl

Lorenzo567

20 Mar, 2013, 3:09 am

(clap)

Minteen

22 Mar, 2013, 4:10 pm

this keeps happening to me when im making my collab! thank u so much! :DDDDDDDDDDDD

SuperK9

25 Mar, 2013, 12:26 am

OMG THANK YOU!!!! YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER! This happened on my painting called Luna's Search Party. I blink, and two dogs just miraculously disappeared. My two best ones, in fact... I was at the point of tears, when my brother comptonbroz told me about the glitch, and about the tutorial. I uploaded it as a test after I fixed it, and it worked! I was so happy! THANK YOU ROGUE RANGER!!!!!!1!!1!

-Thunderteck-

30 Mar, 2013, 2:59 am

so basicly u branch the painting before it dissapears?

jv141

05 Apr, 2013, 9:21 pm

I wish I had known this earlier, my pikach painting looks different after you watch the video...

Admin1366

06 Apr, 2013, 8:38 am

I've never had this happen to me but now I know, so thanks!

doctor who.br1106

06 Apr, 2013, 10:15 pm

IT IS AMASING HOW YOU KNOW HOW TO DO AMASING PANTINGS (or animations) at the same time give really good advis this is epic.(can you do a panting yo shop how you domepic animations!?)?!

:[MineCraft Tnt]:

06 Apr, 2013, 10:43 pm

THANK YOU! this happend to me once.

hearts910

14 Apr, 2013, 1:56 am

I love all of your awesome videos filled with tips:]

Yoshi Ringo

16 Apr, 2013, 2:55 am

..........why is there a naked guy for an example. A landscape would do, but now this is weird.

Masha_V

30 Apr, 2013, 10:28 am

This sometimes happened to my paintings. After I watched this tutorial I could fix them!

SonicDollz

01 May, 2013, 10:21 am

That happened to me on my first painting, I don't how but I managed to fix my Super Sonic pic before I watched your video

Lorenzo567

02 May, 2013, 12:25 am

Now that the Colors! 3D update is out, the update may have fixed the glitch.

penguinz02

07 May, 2013, 3:16 pm

....or just make 2 copies of your picture and if one of them 'glitches' then u still have the other!

penguinz02

07 May, 2013, 3:16 pm

.......well that's just what I do, anyway,............

*MetalDragon*

16 May, 2013, 2:11 pm

This is very useful. This never happened to me (even if I´ve already made twelve pics but I didn´t upload all). But this is helpful in case it happens. :)

Kingcup

27 May, 2013, 3:48 am

love the HHG reference

xXStarlightXx

01 Jun, 2013, 10:30 am

I never realized there was a 'Discard Changes' Button, lol XD

The Drawing Machine

05 Aug, 2013, 7:11 pm

A mi una vez me pasó. El truco funciona.

PETER!!!!!

11 Sep, 2013, 3:11 pm

this happend to my xbox One painting i did this before i even knew about this xD

#Jack

14 Aug, 2014, 9:46 pm

xbox sucks u scrub

Doppio-vinegar

02 Feb, 2015, 12:38 am

Thanks ^^

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