Rich,
I don’t know the limits of History, but the larger it is, understandably the greater a resource load may create. Just edit your preferences and increase the number of History states to your liking. I set it to 100 just now without a problem, but the edits were trivial ones performed on a small file.
Regards,
Daryl
Rich,i am on cs yet,but like daryl says you can set the number,and then using the erase to history feature ,you can go back and forth to different states. Not sure what you are attempting,but perhaps adjustment layers would give you the flexability your after. i also am set at 100 ,and never have any problems,but i have 3.5 gigs of ram.
be careful…default is set to 20 history states, you can not go back past the number of history states you have specified…to change states go to Edit>Preferences…Realize however by increasing the history states you will slow the computer down as it must cache all of the history states.
Also realize that history is cleared when you save and close…not the best way to work if you want to edit the edits two weeks later…or two hours later…
Better way, Layers, Adjustment Layers, blending modes and opacity
Better way, Layers, Adjustment Layers, blending modes and opacity
And layer comps.
Bob
Russell teaches good stuff, but his delivery make me wanna jam a fork in his forehead.
A much better way to go is how I do it. My history is only set for 15 steps. But I am in the habit of adding a snapshot about every ten steps. So even if I go past the 15 steps I can still go back to one of my snapshots.
Craig Flory
Not if you save and close you can’t…also remember each snapshot is costing you RAM….
No, History uses absolutely no ram. . .it ONLY produces increased scratch disk use.
The only thing that uses ram is the actual image/s in Photoshop, the application itself and Image Cache in Preferences (used for caching screen views). History does nothing to affect ram use.
BTW, you can have up to 999 History states in Photoshop.
but you can’t save them!
And when the machine tanks and you haven’t saved because you might want to go back and edit step 857 you have lost however many hours of work you’ve done on this project.
And snapshots slow my machine to a crawl once I get about 4 or 5 of them going! (and I have 4 drives with close to 300gb of space free, defragged etc…60Gig photoshop primary scratch and 2 gigs of installed RAM…)
you should be saving before step 857. i make it a point to save every 5 or 10 minutes.
