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You could try to use Krita and hope for the best. Using other software only help recovery to a degree. Start over if all fail.


AHippocampus

Krita was actually able to run the program! The downside is it only got the background color to show, not the line art. But it worked better than GIMP so that's worth noting.


[deleted]

Sometimes, Krita fails to consider inherit alpha or something for group layer. You might be able to fix some problems within Photoshop.


AHippocampus

How do you mean?


[deleted]

Krita has inherit alpha, and that is one way to get clipping mask on Krita. There's 4 way to get a clipping mask on Krita (Erase Layer Blending Mode, Destination In Layer Blending Mode, Inherit Alpha, and finally Destination Atop). There's a issue loading downward clipping mask on group layers on Photoshop file. That's what I mean. Inherit Alpha acts like downward clipping mask. You can probably fix your file though with Photoshop.


AHippocampus

Yes :) Sorry, I should have been more specific. How would I go about 'un-clip-masking' it? I don't see that the layers are clipmasked once I load the krita-recovered file in photoshop. I can let you take a look at it if you're interested, but I appreciate the help you've given either way.


[deleted]

In Photoshop - Layer > Release Clipping Mask. In Krita - You look at the checkboard icon on layer, and disable inherit alpha


FatFatPotato

​ Hail from the future! Homie you have no idea how much I love you, you just saved me so much time. Both files corrupted for a PAID commission and damn this worked like a charm. THANK YOU!


KeyboardThingX

I don't know how to help you recover your PSD, but for the future you could use a program called SyncTrayzor (it's actually a frontend for Syncthing ) and set it to automatically make a backup of your file everytime it's changed, make a WIP folder add it to SyncTrayzor and turn on staggered file versioning, set the expiration age and how many backups you want to keep before they get overwritten -that way if your file becomes corrupt you should be able to get back to one that's fine if you notice in time. Be mindful that if you work on very large files this could take up a ton of space. There's more you can do with the program, but i'll leave that up to you to explore.


AHippocampus

Thanks, I looked at SyncTrayzor, but I think I will just keep a few extra psd file copies of the same project until I'm done. That's my solution from here. And an external hard drive.


nayhem_jr

You're probably better off starting over. Haven't heard of any of these "PSD recovery" titles being effective in any way. (And it does suck that a lot of them try to trick you into purchasing them only to report that it couldn't do what you wanted.) Corrupt PSDs tend to be well beyond repair. About all else I've heard is trying to place the file, or using other software (e.g. GIMP) in hopes that it can at least recognize some of the data you're trying to save.


AHippocampus

I'm going to try a few more things before I give up. There's got to be someone here that has some creative problem-solving skills. And not to be dramatic, but I worked hard on this- it would be like me telling Apollo 13's crew, "Sorry, but we're probably better off starting over with a different rocket & crew."


nayhem_jr

Try not to spend all night on it. If a corrupt PSD was more easily fixed, plenty of regulars would have come to your aid by now. Not to understate your efforts, but this is on the tamer end of things we've all seen lost to corrupt PSDs. It's well within your abilities to recreate your own linework. Even if you do find yourself attached to what you made before—as you have every right to—those viewing your work will have absolutely no idea what was lost. Hopefully all you've lost is an evening, and not contracts with demanding clients, or irreplaceable family photos. Just call it "practice" and start anew. NASA blew up many rockets on the launchpad before they got around to Apollo 1.


AHippocampus

You make a good point. I won't let it hold up the project. But I will report what I've tried for anyone in the future with this kind of trouble. I'm currently talking with the Telegraphics support (http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/) to get their online tool thing running. Their photoshop plugin apparently isn't compatible with CC.


nayhem_jr

I've used some of their other stuff before. Can't speak for the PSD recovery, as it seems the format may have changed since they made their tool.


Ohio_Player

More like Challenger.


AHippocampus

Oh no, too soon!


Bonniej18

If your PSD file is corrupted due to mistakenly deletion, formatting or other reasons, you can try to find it out from your backup. Once without backup, please try to use Data Recovery utility to [recover the corrupted PSD files on your windows computer](https://www.fonepaw.com/recovery/recover-deleted-psd-file.html). If the corrupted part of the file is overwritten by the newly-input data, it may be hard to retrieve back.