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Looking at the Work Area
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States are added from the top down. That is, the
oldest state is at the top of the list, the most recent
one at the bottom.
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Each state is listed with the name of the tool or
command used to change the image.
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By default, selecting a state dims those below.
This way you can easily see which changes will be
discarded if you continue working from the
selected state.
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Selecting a state and then changing the image
eliminates all states that come after. Likewise,
deleting a state deletes that state and those that
came after it.
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If you select a state and then change the image,
eliminating the states that came after, you can use
the Undo command to undo the last change and
restore the eliminated states.
Using the History palette
You can use the History palette to revert to a
previous state of an image and delete an image's
states.
A
B
A. History state B. History state slider
C. Trash button
To display the History palette:
Choose Window > Show History, or click the
History palette tab.
To revert to a previous state of an image:
Do any of the following:
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to a different state.
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buttons from the shortcuts bar.
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the palette menu or the Edit menu to move to the
next or previous state.
Preferences > General, and select an option for Step
Back/Fwd.
To delete one or more states of the image:
Do one of the following:
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from the History palette menu to delete that
change and those that came after it.
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that change and those that came after it.
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delete the list of states from the History palette,
without changing the image. This option doesn't
reduce the amount of memory used by Photoshop
C
Elements.
Click the name of the state.
Drag the slider at the left of the state up or down
Click the Step Forward or Step Backward
Choose Step Forward or Step Backward from
To set the keyboard command for Step Forward
and Step Backward, choose Edit >
Click the name of the state, and choose Delete
Drag the state to the Trash button ( ) to delete
Choose Clear History from the palette menu to
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