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CHAPTER 8 170
Editing and Retouching
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Choose Edit > Purge > Histories to purge the list
of states from the History palette for all open
documents.
This action cannot be undone.
To create a new document based on the selected
state or snapshot of the image:
Do one of the following:
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Drag a state or snapshot onto the New
Document button ( ).
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Select a state or snapshot and click the New
Document button ( ).
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Select a state or snapshot and choose New
Document from the pop-up menu on the palette.
The history list for the newly created document
will be empty.
To save one or more snapshots or image
states for use in a later editing session,
create a new file for each state you’ll save, and
save each in a separate file. When you reopen
your original file, also open the other saved files.
You can drag each file’s initial snapshot to the
original image and thus access the snapshots
again from the original image’s History palette.
To replace another document with a selected state:
Drag the state onto the other document.
To specify history options:
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Choose History Options from the History
palette pop-up menu.
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Select history options:
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For Maximum History Items, enter the
maximum number of states that can be listed on
the History palette.
Note: This number is limited by the size of the image,
the type of changes you make to it, and the amount
of memory available to Photoshop.
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Select Automatically Create First Snapshot to
automatically create a snapshot of the initial state
of the image when the document is opened.
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Select Allow Non-linear History to make
changes to a selected state without deleting the
states that come after. Normally, when you select a
state and change the image, all states that come
after the selected one are deleted. This enables the
History palette to display a list of the editing steps
in the order you made them. By recording states in
a non-linear way you can select a state, make a
change to the image, and delete just that state.
The change will be inserted into the list of states,
without deleting the states after it. This gives
greater flexibility, but is less clearly organized.
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Click OK.