I think your stuck. Did you do any of your adustments on adjustment layers? Rename the new document, save the adjustment layers, then open the old document and add the adjustment layers from your worked file.. Also check and see if you can copy any alpha channels to the new document.
I don’t see saving any of your healing brush work.
am i missing something? (it’s late!) image> image size> uncheck the resample box and change the resolution to what you want it.
Dave,
It’s early here! But I think it is too late for your suggestion, since he has to do that while cropping. Now he probably saved over the file having cropped with the wrong settings.
Rob
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Suppose you open an image, crop it, then do a lot of work (e.g. curves,
healing brush, color, specific work on selections, etc.) then you notice that when you did the crop you inadvertently changed the resolution. Is there a way convert that work into an action after the fact and apply it to the original image anew (with the corerct resolution)? Or is there another way to save the work that was done? What would be perfect is if there is a way to modify a particular history step (i.e., the one where I entered the wrong resolution).
One of the first rules I learned: back up all your work *before* starting. You do have a copy of the original image, right?
I think I’m stuck too. But let me try to be more clear. Suppose I open an image and then perform 15 adjustments (not on adjustment layers) to it, with the first adjustment being changing from 400 dpi to 72 dpi at a fixed imagine size (resulting in a smaller file). Then with all the history in place, before the file is saved, I check the file menu and discover that step one was made in error. The image should not have been changed to 72 dpi. It should have been changed to 300 dpi. Is there a way to recover from the error and save the work done in the 14 correct steps following the incorrect one?
For instance, could I simply "remove" that incorrect first step and have the 14 correct steps apply to the image which would then be a 400 dpi image? Or could I "modify" that incorrect first step chnaging the incorrect 72 to 300? Or could I "save" the 14 correct steps, close the file open the image again, change to the correct dpi then somehow apply those 14 steps to the image I’ve just opened? Or maybe there’s some other way to accomplish the same thing.
i’m still not sure i understand (and I’ve slept now!<g>). Unless you cropped away part of the data you meant to save, you can change the resolution with the "resample image" box unchecked and not add or destroy any data except to change the print resolution (ppi).
Then I have a point of clarification, but my original question kinda sorta remains.
Clarification. If I change the resolution lower in step 1, then do 14 things, then change the resolution back higher in step 16, PS still has all that higher resolution data in memory? Is that why I haven’t lost anything by changing the resolution back in step 16? Because certainly if I open a file, change the resolution lower, save it, then close the file, the open it again, there is no way to get that high resolution data back. What I hear you saying is that it doesn’t work that way — that because the file remains open I can change resolution down and up and nothing is lost. Or to put it another way, if I understand you correctly, when you change the resolution (with fixed dimensions) the dialogue box *says* the image is smaller, but PS hasn’t really performed the operation and hasn’t really lost the data until the file is saved and closed. That is what allows you to change the resolution again. If this is the case, this would indeed solve my problem.
Original question. But what if I had cropped the image in step 1? Is there a way to go back and change *that* step 1, and then have the 14 subsequent steps apply?
In Photoshop 7 it is possible to drag individual changes from the history pallet to the garbage can at the bottom of the pallet . Can you just do that?
I tried that and it deleted that step and everything that came thereafter. Someone said to check the box "allow non-linear history" in the history pallet options. But I did that and it didn’t seem to make a difference.
Jim, I gave that a try because you got me a wondering. It let me trash the history step where I change the res, but the image still stayed at the changed dpi.
I don’t know Homeboy, I’ve tried, but can’t do it. I even recorded a action, clicked on all the history stages, then tried to play the action on the same document at the original dpi, and the action wouldn’t work.
I tired down sizing, painting on the pic, and then going back to the original res, and it didn’t look bad, but I’m working on a digital pic.
When I tried the same thing on a scanned pic, there was a noticeable loss of detail, so I don’t think you can down size, then up size, and have PS use the history to up size.
