- Miss the Old Default Actions?
- Rearranging your Brushes
- Find the Center of Any Document
- No More Jaggy Lasso Tool Selections
- Open Up Some Screen Real Estate
- Let Photoshop Do the Work in Curves
- Want a Finer Grid? You Got It!
- You Don't Need the Brushes Palette to Change Brush Size
- Rotate to Any Angle the Fast Way
- Get Rid of Unwanted Brushes
- Brushes Right Where You Want 'em
- Navigating the Brush Picker Like a Pro
- Get More Control Over Your Paint Strokes
- Speed Tip to Rotate Through Open Images
- Instantly Find the Center of Any Object
- Making Your Guide Flip
- Creating Temporary Brushes
- Reusing Your Last Curve Setting
- Bringing Back Those Cropped-Away Areas
- Fix Those Stray Pixels Fast!
- Getting More Control over the Magic Wand
- Making the Color Palette Work Twice as Hard
- Use Your Last Settings and Save Time
- Hit Those Channels Fast
- How to Get an Undo After You've Closed the Document
- Using the Pen? Stay Away from the Toolbox
- Put Your Gradient Picker at Your Fingertips
- Don't Click in That Field!
- Out of Memory? Try This First
- How to Unerase
- Let Photoshop Straighten Your Crooked Scans
- Copy One Layer, or Copy 'em All
- Stuck in a Field? Here's How to Escape
- Don't Cancel; Reset and Save Time
- See Every Tweak with Bigger Filter Gallery Previews
- Showing One Effect in the Filter Gallery
- Use the Move Tool Anytime
- Filter Gallery Zoom Quick Tip
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
HOW TO GET AN UNDO AFTER YOU'VE CLOSED THE DOCUMENT
As you probably already know, the History palette keeps track of the last 20 changes to your document, and you can use it for multiple undos when working on a project. The only bad part is that when you close your document, your undos (in History) are automatically deleted. However, there is a way to save an undo, as long as it's a tonal adjustment (such as Curves, Levels, Color Balance, etc.), by creating adjustment layers. Just click on the half-white/half-black circle icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and choose your tonal adjustment from the pop-up menu to create an adjustment layer. These adjustment layers are saved along with your file. That way, the next time you open the file, you can go back and edit your Curves, Levels, etc., adjustment by double-clicking on the adjustment layer's thumbnail. The last-applied adjustment will appear, and you can edit it live. If you decide you don't want the original adjustment applied at all, you can drag the adjustment layer into the Trash icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. You can also add a Gradient fill, a Pattern fill, and even a Solid Color fill as an adjustment layer, giving you an undo at a later date, because again, they're saved as layers with the file.
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