Adobe photoshop elements Manuel D’Utilisation

CHAPTER 1

Looking at the Work Area

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States are added from the top down. That is, the

oldest state is at the top of the list, the most recent
one at the bottom.

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Each state is listed with the name of the tool or

command used to change the image.

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By default, selecting a state dims those below.

This way you can easily see which changes will be
discarded if you continue working from the
selected state.

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Selecting a state and then changing the image

eliminates all states that come after. Likewise,
deleting a state deletes that state and those that
came after it.

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If you select a state and then change the image,

eliminating the states that came after, you can use
the Undo command to undo the last change and
restore the eliminated states.

Using the History palette

You can use the History palette to revert to a
previous state of an image and delete an image’s
states.

A. History state B. History state slider
C. Trash button

To display the History palette:

Choose Window > Show History, or click the
History palette tab.

To revert to a previous state of an image:

Do any of the following:

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Click the name of the state.

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Drag the slider at the left of the state up or down

to a different state.

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Click the Step Forward or Step Backward

buttons from the shortcuts bar.

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Choose Step Forward or Step Backward from

the palette menu or the Edit menu to move to the
next or previous state.

To set the keyboard command for Step Forward
and Step Backward, choose Edit >

Preferences > General, and select an option for Step
Back/Fwd.

To delete one or more states of the image:

Do one of the following:

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Click the name of the state, and choose Delete

from the History palette menu to delete that
change and those that came after it.

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Drag the state to the Trash button ( ) to delete

that change and those that came after it.

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Choose Clear History from the palette menu to

delete the list of states from the History palette,
without changing the image. This option doesn’t
reduce the amount of memory used by Photoshop
Elements.