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Photoshop lets you paint backwards in time and even go forward in time, using a unique panel called the history panel. It's located under our window menu and is located right here under history. And as you can see, we're able to use the history panel to go to this guy right here, which is called snapshot, and to go to any other state that we create to paint backwards to. So let me just go ahead and show you what I'm talking about.The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to grab my paintbrush, change the color swatch and I'm going to make a mark in my document. So let me go ahead and actually change that color. I'm going to move my mouse like so and if you look in the history panel, it says brush tool. It knows exactly what I did here. And I'm going to change the color now to, let's say green. And I'll paint another mark and I'll do the same thing and I'll paint a red color. This time I'll change tools. I'll go to my pencil and I'll change the colors again. I'll go to like a yellowish color. And you'll notice that I have this very, very fine line here. I'll even increase the brush size a little bit so we can see it a little bit more clearly. And if I expand this, you'll notice that we have every tool recorded. We have our brush, this brush, this one, this one and this one. Now, it's interesting because we can always click on the first state to go back to the pristine document and we can always click on the history state to go forward in time. Now, this column will allow you to choose one of these states to paint backwards too, using the history brush. For example, let's go ahead and take a look at what's on here. We have these two marks. We have a blue one and we have a green one. So if I put the mouse icon right in here, this brush icon, and I go back to this pencil one and I grab my history brush, I can paint backwards to reveal what's on this particular, uh, state. So I'll paint a little bit and as you see, I'm going back to that blue and that green. And I'll keep painting until you can just see up here the blue and green. And I'll just go half way so you can see it on the bottom of this document, I have all of these other states and up here I only have what's on this current state. And that is why you choose one of these states here to paint backwards in time. It's very, very handy. Now, let's talk about what a snapshot is. If I'm happy with this artwork so far and I want to store it as a state that I can go back to at any time, I click on this camera and I create a new snapshot. So this is the snapshot here and this is the original. I can always go backwards to these. Now, something very important that I need to mention about the history brush and the history panel itself. Your history states are not saved with your document. Very important. If you save this file and you come back tomorrow, this is all clear again. It's very important to say that now. These are not saved with the document, so work with them while you can. Let's go and look at some of the options we have here. When we click on the option list, we can see we can step forward and step backwards. We can create a new snapshot. And pretty much the same thing can be done by clicking on the camera. We can delete a state. We can clear all of history and let me undo that. And we can also create a new document based on this history state. So as you see here, this is a new document called snapshot 1, based on the history. I'll go back to the other file. And the history is stored there as well. And we can go to our history options. Now, this is important as well. You can automatically have Photoshop create a snapshot when you first launch a document, which will give you this guy here. Always keep that on. You can also automatically create a snapshot when saving. You can allow non-linear history so you can jump back and forth all over the place and not worry about any particular states. You can also show a new snapshot dialog by default and you can make layer visibility changes undoable. So you have a lot of options when it comes to working with the history. So you can turn them all on if you like, or just leave the ones you are interest in on. So let me put that on. As you see here, I can jump around and I can also go to this pencil, for example, and I can grab my brush and I can paint and it allows me a non-linear history. In the past, let me go back to the history options here and turn these off. I'll put the non-linear on as well. If I choose a state like this and then I paint, you'll notice that it gets rid of the states that were here. So that's why you want to have the non-linear history on, so you can add strokes in between strokes. So once again, you might want to keep that on so you can just play around. I can go up here, for example, and I can paint a stroke and it just adds that stroke without getting rid of the rest of the history. And I can still go back to my other states. The history panel is a very cool panel. It allows you a lot of options when it comes to painting backwards in time with the history brush or the art history brush and it also acts as a super-duper, multiple undo feature. Because in Photoshop, you'll notice that we have, by default, one undo and then we have to step backwards or go to revert if you want to go to the very beginning of our document.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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