Vent: Had to choose between finishing my digital painting or saving a corrupted file layer

I picked saving the layer because my tablet pen was dying at 5%, then the whole program froze anyway and I lost both the layer and the 3 hours of work on that glowing elf portrait, anyone else ever get stuck between two bad options and pick the worst one?

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thea6028d ago

Have you ever noticed how the universe seems to pick the exact worst moment to mess with you? That really sucks, sorry that happened. I swear digital art programs have a sixth sense for when your battery is about to die. You pick the one thing that seems safe and it just backfires completely.

robinp897d ago

5 times out of 5 my laptop saves the dramatic crash for when I'm 12 layers deep and haven't hit ctrl+s in 45 minutes. It's like the universe watches me get comfortable just to pull the rug out. My old tablet used to time its battery death to the exact frame I was rendering something important. Honestly though, at this point I just save every 30 seconds like a paranoid mess. It's the only way to fight back against the tech gremlins.

daniel_cooper347d ago

Actually saving the layer first was the right call, you just got unlucky with bad timing.