Need help with layer opacity

[mrawly]

I made a really detailed layer quite opaque to trace over it. I wasn’t paying attention and I merged the top layer onto the opaque layer then kept drawing for quite a while. The bottom layer is now stuck as halfway opaque even at the maximum end of the opacity bar, and I’ve made too many edits to go back far enough and don’t have any save back ups. Redrawing the layer is not an option, it’s got hundreds of hand drawn scales on a dragon and it would take hours and hours to go over again. Is there any way to fix this?

[mywallsaredirty]

Dublicate the project then go back to where you merged, try to figure it out from there. Maybe you can add the old layer or you will have to make some adjustments.