To Receive Notification When An Operation Is Completed; About The History Palette - Adobe PHOTOSHOP CS2 User Manual

To receive notification when an operation is completed

A progress bar indicates that an operation is being performed. You can interrupt the operation or have the program
notify you when it has finished the operation.
Do one of the following:
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(Windows) choose Edit > Preferences > General.
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• (Mac OS) choose Photoshop > Preferences > General or choose ImageReady > Preferences General.
Do one of the following:
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• (Photoshop) Select Beep When Done.
(ImageReady) Select Notify When Done. In Mac OS, you can then choose System Alert to be notified through
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your system alert or Text To Speech to receive a spoken notification.
Click OK.
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About the History palette

You can use the History palette to jump to any recent state of the image created during the current working session.
Each time you apply a change to an image, the new state of that image is added to the palette.
For example, if you select, paint, and rotate part of an image, each of those states is listed separately in the palette.
When you select one of the states, the image reverts to how it looked when that change was first applied. You can
then work from that state.
You can also use the History palette to delete image states and, in Photoshop, to create a document from a state or
snapshot.
To display the History palette, choose Window > History, or click the History palette tab.
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Photoshop History palette
A. Sets the source for the history brush B. Thumbnail of a snapshot C. History state D. History state slider
Keep the following in mind when using the History palette:
Program-wide changes, such as changes to palettes, color settings, actions, and preferences, are not reflected in the
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History palette, because they are not changes to a particular image.
• By default, the History palette lists the previous 20 states (Photoshop), or 32 states (ImageReady). You can change
the number of remembered states by setting a preference. Older states are automatically deleted to free more
memory for Photoshop. To keep a particular state throughout your work session, make a snapshot of the state.
Once you close and reopen the document, all states and snapshots from the last working session are cleared from
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the palette.
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