The only benefit to using the History Brush instead of “Erase to History” is that the brush’s Options bar lets you pick a blend mode menu to create different color effects as you erase to the previous state. How is erasing to history different from using the History Brush? They both do basically the same thing. Next, in the Layers panel, click the layer you want to edit, and then in the main document window, start dragging over the areas you want to restore to their former glory. Erasing to history is a handy way to leave some changes in place while recovering your original image in other areas.įirst, grab the Eraser tool by pressing E and then, in the Options bar, turn on the “Erase to History” checkbox.
Happily, Photoshop’s “Erase to History” feature lets you jump back in time and paint away the edits you no longer want. For example, you may change the color of an object only to decide later that it looked better the way it was. Clicking one of these saved-state thumbnails is a fast and easy way to jump back to the last saved version of the document.Īt some point, you’ll realize that the perfect fix for your image is something you zapped 10 steps ago. In the resulting dialog box, turn on Automatically Create New Snapshot When Saving. If you’d like the top of the History panel to include thumbnail previews showing what your image looks like each and every time you save the document-in addition to the thumbnail you automatically get by opening the image-open the History panel’s menu and choose History Options. That way, you’ve got a totally separate document to return to so you don’t have to recreate that particular state. If you think you’ll ever want to return to an earlier version of the document, click the “Create new document from current state” button at the bottom of the History panel (labeled in here). What a timesaver! History states don’t hang around forever-as soon as you close the document, they’re history (ha!). For example, if you’ve given your image a sepia (brown) tint and later changed it to blue, you can easily go back to the sepia version by clicking the snapshot you took of it, as shown here, without having to step back through all the other changes you made. Bottom: If you take a snapshot, you can revert to that state later with a single click. You can even take snapshots of an image at crucial points during the editing process, such as when you convert it to black and white and then add a color tint. If you hop back further than you mean to, just click a more recent step in the list.įigure 1-10. Top: The History panel keeps track of everything you do to your images, starting with opening them. To jump back in time, click the step you want to go back to, and Photoshop returns the image to the way it looked at that point.
When you do, Photoshop opens a list of the last 50 things you’ve done to the image, including opening it. And, as explained in a moment, you can also take snapshots of an image at various points in the editing process to make it easier to hop back to the state you want.Īfter you make a few changes to an image, pop open the History panel by clicking its button (circled in Figure 1-10, top) or by choosing Window→History. (You can step back through as many history states as you set in Photoshop’s preferences-see the previous section.) Using the History panel is much quicker than undoing a long list of changes one by one, and it gives you a nice list of exactly what tools and menu items you used to alter the image-in chronological order from top to bottom-letting you pinpoint the exact state you want to jump back to. Whereas the Undo and Step Backward commands let you move back through changes one at a time, the History panel ( Figure 1-10) kicks it up a notch and lets you jump back several steps at once.
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