If it was possible to do this, the file would be absolutely HUGE! and they would take forever to open!
Each history state can contain as much information as the original file, so imaging how big your file would be with (say) 50 history states!! This is why Photoshop uses a scratch disk to temporarily hold these states whilst you are working.
What you can do however, is create a log of all the edits you have performed. It can’t be used for undo, of course, but it is sometimes useful as a reminder of what you have done to an image ("did I sharpen it last time or not?" etc)
Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES>GENERAL and check the History Log checkbox. You then have the option of saving the log to a separate text file or to the metadata of the image file.
Hope this helps.
Chris.
Thanks John. I’ll take a look.
Selwyn
Deebs, I can get in perfectly. Maybe your DNS settings are wrong.
I would like to save files so they reopen with the history palette showing all the states that it showed when I saved and closed the file.
Isn’t that what actions do? I thought actions recorded your history then repeated those steps when you play it back. Just do that, play it back and you should have everything you did in your history palette.
I’m kinda shooting in the dark here.
D,
DNS is short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Because domain names are alphabetic, they’re easier to remember. The Internet however, is really based on IP addresses. Every time you use a domain name, therefore, a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com might translate to 198.105.232.4.
The DNS system is, in fact, its own network. If one DNS server doesn’t know how to translate a particular domain name, it asks another one, and so on, until the correct IP address is returned.
HTH
TMH
Isn’t that what actions do? I thought actions recorded your history then repeated those steps when you play it back.
Jason,
The poster is asking for his image to be opened with all of the history still there. He could use a history log, but it will not appear in the history palette. Actions, on the other hand, will perform specific steps, and they will be recorded in the history palette.
So, if you use an action and then the clone tool, the history palette would retain that info, but not the action – because you aren’t including the Clone steps in your action.
Since he hasn’t necessarily stated what he’s trying to accomplish, the best workaround is what John suggested -layer comps; But I’m not convinced they are as useful as advertised, personally.
Ah, thanks for explaining that. I misunderstood just as I suspected.
No worries. Nice to see you in the sane part of Adobe forums!
Deebs,
You need quicktime on the machine…
