Deleting Steps in the History Palette?

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Bob Williams
May 12, 2005
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In the process of editing images of flowers, I often clone out lots of little imperfections and tiny pieces of debris on the blossom. Each clone step makes an entry into the History palette. Since my history palette is defaulted to hold something like 50 steps, I very quickly lose the ability to review the earlier steps in the operation. Is there some way that I can preserve the image at a certain point in the History palette and somehow delete all those pesky cloning steps that are just taking up space and preventing me from reviewing some of my early steps. Seems like I learned to do that at one time, long ago, but I cannot recall how it was done.
Thanks in advance.
Bob Williams

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Roy
May 12, 2005
"Bob Williams" wrote in message
In the process of editing images of flowers, I often clone out lots of little imperfections and tiny pieces of debris on the blossom. Each clone step makes an entry into the History palette. Since my history palette is defaulted to hold something like 50 steps, I very quickly lose the ability to review the earlier steps in the operation. Is there some way that I can preserve the image at a certain point in the History palette and somehow delete all those pesky cloning steps that are just taking up space and preventing me from reviewing some of my early steps. Seems like I learned to do that at one time, long ago, but I cannot recall how it was done.
Thanks in advance.
Bob Williams

Hi there.

What you need is to make "snapshots" Click on camera icon at the bottom of the history palette.

Roy G
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Craig Flory
May 12, 2005
I agree about making a "snapshot" about every ten steps or so. But, 50 history levels is way too many. Make it 15 … or 20 at the most. Using 50 uses up too many resources. Snapshots use less. Go into Edit > Preferences and change it to15 or 20.

Craig Flory
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Hecate
May 12, 2005
On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:00:22 GMT, "Craig Flory" wrote:

I agree about making a "snapshot" about every ten steps or so. But, 50 history levels is way too many. Make it 15 … or 20 at the most. Using 50 uses up too many resources. Snapshots use less. Go into Edit > Preferences and change it to15 or 20.
That’s funny that’s almost exactly the same answer, word for word, as I gave when the same question, IIRC, from the same person, was asked last week. 🙂



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Bob Williams
May 13, 2005
Roy wrote:
"Bob Williams" wrote in message

In the process of editing images of flowers, I often clone out lots of little imperfections and tiny pieces of debris on the blossom. Each clone step makes an entry into the History palette. Since my history palette is defaulted to hold something like 50 steps, I very quickly lose the ability to review the earlier steps in the operation. Is there some way that I can preserve the image at a certain point in the History palette and somehow delete all those pesky cloning steps that are just taking up space and preventing me from reviewing some of my early steps. Seems like I learned to do that at one time, long ago, but I cannot recall how it was done.
Thanks in advance.
Bob Williams

Hi there.

What you need is to make "snapshots" Click on camera icon at the bottom of the history palette.

Roy G
AH! yes. That’s right. Now I remember.
Thanks …….Bob
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Bob Williams
May 13, 2005
Hecate wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:00:22 GMT, "Craig Flory" wrote:

I agree about making a "snapshot" about every ten steps or so. But, 50 history levels is way too many. Make it 15 … or 20 at the most. Using 50 uses up too many resources. Snapshots use less. Go into Edit > Preferences and change it to15 or 20.

That’s funny that’s almost exactly the same answer, word for word, as I gave when the same question, IIRC, from the same person, was asked last week. 🙂

Somebody else must have asked the Question.
It wasn’t me.
Bob Williams
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Bob Williams
May 13, 2005
Craig Flory wrote:
I agree about making a "snapshot" about every ten steps or so. But, 50 history levels is way too many. Make it 15 … or 20 at the most. Using 50 uses up too many resources. Snapshots use less. Go into Edit > Preferences and change it to15 or 20.

Craig Flory

Good Idea!
If I make snapshots every 10 steps or so, 20 history levels should be ample. Thanks for the tip.
Bob Williams

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