Undo!

[Andrew Brinkhaus]

I know this is a no brainer question...but I cannot find an answer...

In Photoshop 6.0, how do you change the amount of undo levels? I've looked all around the program, and can't find the adjustment box. Right now it is set at 1 and killing me. I appreciate the help, though it's probably not much.

[chud13]

Bear with me here. On a Mac, undo is like open apple (?) + Z. If you hold down the option key while pressing Open Apple + Z it give you more undos, but it is probably still limited by what you have in the preferences menu. On a PC, it is probably crtl + alt + Z.

[zoostory]

Photoshop only has one undo. to undo further you need to use the history pallet and step backwards. There are shortcut keys for that. I can't remember but I believe PS6 introduced the history pallet, so you should have it.

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

No way, I use multiple undo on photoshop all the time.
as per chud13 hold down option/open apple/Z and you can get several undos.
... as for changing number of undos I'll look tonight and see if I can figure it out if no one else does first.

[GageFX]

Yeah, in the preferences you can change the amount of undo levels and the undo keys.

By default, (PC) Ctrl-Z performs undo/redo. It is common to remap so Ctrl-Z will only undo and set CTRL-Y to redo.

In CS2 (maybe CS also), this remapps something else, but for the last 5 releases, at least, CTRL-Z/CTRL-Y was the standard so I refuse to relearn what is natural just because they gave CTRL-Y to something else this version.

So there.

Hope that helps.

-GageFX

(and when remapped, just keep hitting that CTRL-Z and it will go all the way back through the history... to it's limits)

[zoostory]

No way, I use multiple undo on photoshop all the time.
as per chud13 hold down option/open apple/Z and you can get several undos.
... as for changing number of undos I'll look tonight and see if I can figure it out if no one else does first.



Waaaay. Dude. :) Option+ Apple + Z is actually "Step Backward in History" so you are doing the same thing I was saying, only using a shortcut key. Shift + Apple + Z is Step Forward in History. It's two different buffers. Ctrl+Z is left over from the days of past, before the history pallete.


Sure, you can call them redo and undo, but Photoshop doesn't. That's why, if you go into prefs to increase the number of undos you're not going to find it. Instead, you have to go into the GENERAL section of prefs and increase the HISTORY STATES number, to increase the amount you can step backward in history.

You can go to Window/History, open up the history pallet, do a bunch of stuff, and then usee the hot keys mentioned above to step backward and forward, and you will literally see the effect in the history pallet. Optionally, you can manually click on a section in the history to jump back all the way back to the beginning of your history, or somehwere in the middle. Using history brushes and clone tools, you can even take elements from your history and paint them into your current work. Check it out in help, it's pretty cool if you like that kind of stuff.

So, um, yeah... way. The terminology was important when I took the Adobe Cert. Test, so I am a stickler for it!

[Jack Daniel Stanley]

Waaaay. Dude. :)
hee hee

[chud13]

Zoo Story is right and I am wrong. Crtl + Z is not undo, it is Step Backward in History. If you want to Step Backward in History more than once hold down Crtl + Alt + Z. I step backward in history all the time when I make a mistake. I am glad there is a step backward in history shortcut. Besides, "Step Backward in History" is so much easier to say than undo. Just like "Laughing My Ass Off" is much easier to type than LMAO.