Recover flattened psd

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budabuda_
Jun 1, 2006
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Hi,

I made a rookie mistake in a hurry.

1) I saved final psd in Photoshop
2) moved it to ImageReady
3) flattened it
4) optimized jpg for web and saved it
5) minutes later I closed ImageReady and overwrited original layered psd by flattened psd

So now I don’t have layered psd anymore and future changes aren’t possible. Is there way to recover earlier version or is my file eternaly gone?

I’m 99% sure that I have to do all my work again, but I’m asking anyway…

Thanks,

Buda
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Voivod
Jun 1, 2006
On 1 Jun 2006 04:20:14 -0700, scribbled:

Is there way to recover earlier version or is my file
eternaly gone?

It’s history.
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edjh
Jun 1, 2006
wrote:
Hi,

I made a rookie mistake in a hurry.

1) I saved final psd in Photoshop
2) moved it to ImageReady
3) flattened it
4) optimized jpg for web and saved it
5) minutes later I closed ImageReady and overwrited original layered psd by flattened psd

So now I don’t have layered psd anymore and future changes aren’t possible. Is there way to recover earlier version or is my file eternaly gone?

I’m 99% sure that I have to do all my work again, but I’m asking anyway…

Thanks,

Buda
If you closed the saved flattened file, you are out of luck. BTW, you didn’t really need to flatten it, as IR does that automatically when Saving Optimized As…
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Tacit
Jun 1, 2006
In article ,
wrote:

So now I don’t have layered psd anymore and future changes aren’t possible. Is there way to recover earlier version or is my file eternaly gone?

Your file is gone. Sorry…

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noone
Jun 1, 2006
In article ,
says…
Hi,

I made a rookie mistake in a hurry.

1) I saved final psd in Photoshop
2) moved it to ImageReady
3) flattened it
4) optimized jpg for web and saved it
5) minutes later I closed ImageReady and overwrited original layered psd by flattened psd

So now I don’t have layered psd anymore and future changes aren’t possible. Is there way to recover earlier version or is my file eternaly gone?

I’m 99% sure that I have to do all my work again, but I’m asking anyway…

Thanks,

Buda

As has been pointed out, there is nothing that can be done now. This is a great reason to save variations along the way. For me, Save & Save_As are too close, and I have *almost* hit the wrong one at the wrong time.

If you are in CS CS2 and have your History set to Log the History into a TXT file, you might be able to at least look at that, to see what you did in the creation process. Unfortunately, one can only use that file as a guideline to re-do the work.

Sorry – we’ve all either been there, or been so close to there that the hair still stands up on the back of our necks.

Hunt
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Kielipuoli
Jun 2, 2006
I feel sorry for you, Buda… Something very similar has happened to me a couple of times.
🙁

There is something you can do (at least in CS2) to try to avoid this kind of things happening too easily in the future. (This doesn’t work for every situation, though.) When this has happened to me, it happened because I was too eager to hit Ctrl+S and close the file. What I’ve done now is change the shortcut for Save, and I made Ctrl+S the shortcut for Save As… (Edit > Keyboard shortcuts) This is not bullet proof, though, but at least it forces me to "think" before saving the file.

Anyway, I think the best method is to make backups regularly while you work.
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Tacit
Jun 3, 2006
In article ,
"Kielipuoli" wrote:

There is something you can do (at least in CS2) to try to avoid this kind of things happening too easily in the future. (This doesn’t work for every situation, though.) When this has happened to me, it happened because I was too eager to hit Ctrl+S and close the file. What I’ve done now is change the shortcut for Save, and I made Ctrl+S the shortcut for Save As… (Edit > Keyboard shortcuts) This is not bullet proof, though, but at least it forces me to "think" before saving the file.

There should never be a reason to flatten a Photoshop file while you are working on it. Saving for Web or saving a copy in a format that does not permit layers flattens automatically; you don’t have to flatten the image, which decreases the chance of automatically saving a flat version over a layered version.

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