Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step Three:
If you actually want to jump back to what
your photo looked like at a particular stage,
then instead of hovering over the state,
you'd click once on it and your photo
reverts to that state. By the way, if you use
the keyboard shortcut for your undos (in-
stead of using the History panel), the edit
you're undoing is displayed in very large
letters over your photo (as seen here). This
is handy because you can see what you're
undoing, without having to keep the
History panel open all the time.
Step Four:
During your editing process, if you come
to a point where you really like what you
see and you want the option of quickly
jumping back to that point, go to the
Snapshots panel (it's right above the
History panel), and click on the + (plus
sign) button on the right side of the panel
header (as shown here). That moment in
time is saved to the Snapshots panel, and
it appears with its name field highlighted,
so you can give it a name that makes sense
to you (I named mine “Black & White with
Exposure Adjusted,” so I'd know that if I
clicked on that snapshot, that's what I'd
get—a black-and-white photo with the ex-
posure tweaked. You can see my snapshot
highlighted in the Snapshots panel shown
here). By the way, you don't have to actu-
ally click on a previous step to save it as a
snapshot. Instead, in the History panel you
can just Right-click on any step and choose
Create Snapshot
from the pop-up menu.
Pretty handy.
