CTRL-Z

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Jim_Simon
Jan 11, 2007
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Here’s a weird thing. When I hit CTRL-Z, Photoshop will Undo the last step, as it should. However, Photoshop seems to consider my "undo" as a step, and if I hit CTRL-Z again, it undoes my undo, rather than proceeding down the list of history actions as it should.

In effect, CTRL-Z once will undo the last action, CTRL-Z again will redo the action, thus hitting CTRL-Z over and over doesn’t go down the list of steps as it should, but simply toggles the last step on and off.

Anyone else ever see this?

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Bernie
Jan 11, 2007
Anyone else ever see this?

What you describe sounds normal to me.

IIRC, Ctrl-Alt-Z allows you to go back up the history list
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Bob Levine
Jan 11, 2007
Perfectly normal. Feel free to change the keyboard shutcut if you don’t like the behavior.

Bob
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Don_McCahill
Jan 11, 2007
This tracks back to (I think) PS 4 or 5, when there only was one undo. Then someone very clever invented the history palette as a way of getting multiple undos.

Technically PS still only has 1 "undo" step, as you have found, but it is not a problem because you can undo multiple (not unlimited) steps with the history palette.
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Q_Photo
Jan 12, 2007
Cybernetic Nomad said "Ctrl-Alt-Z" to go back more than one step. He is correct.
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Jim_Simon
Jan 29, 2007
Thank you for the replies. I get it now.

Photoshop has a single shortcut for both Undo and Redo, thus the flip/flop upon repeated key presses. I am accustomed to the standard of having Undo and Redo as two separate shortcuts.

Changing CTRL-Z to Step Backwards effectively returns behavior to the expected norm. Thanks for the tip.

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