How to erase stray marks from an unknown layer

I'one thousand getting ameliorate, but I accept to admit that I often forget to pay attention to which layer I'm working on.

Inevitably, when I draw something on the wrong layer, it'southward the one thing I want to erase later, when I accept a dozen layers and can't figure out which one information technology was on.

At that place are ii quick fixes for this.

Erase It.  ALL of It

Erase tool options

First, if it'southward simply a stray mark you want to remove and information technology isn't interfering with any of the rest of the art, use the Erase Multiple Layers tool. Delete the devious mark, then get back through the other layers and supplant annihilation that got deleted forth the style.

This will work, but it's very destructive, and so exist careful. Information technology works best only in isolated places that can be easily reconstructed, like where you only need to colour back in the color of the background to fix the newly erased portion.

The Object Tool

Object tool selections

If yous need to be more than authentic, though, the Object tool will direct you to the right layer.  Use the "O" keyboard shortcut to select an object, then click on the devious line.  CSP will movement you lot to the layer that mark is on. So, you tin can erase every bit you usually would (employ the Hard Eraser) , or do whatever other correction you might need.

This is the preferred method as it'due south the about precise and does the to the lowest degree damage to everything surrounding the devious mark. Y'all still need to be careful, just it eliminates many bug that erasing from all layers causes.

Y'all may even want to hide all the other layers while you fix the error on this one.  That way, you won't be surprised when you erase something you didn't realize was on the aforementioned layer.

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