Computer Graphics with Photoshop - OOPS OOPS- How Do I Work With CS2 HISTORY?

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OOPS OOPS- How Do I Work With CS2 HISTORY?

Jethro

2007-01-10, 6:20 pm

I want to start a new thread and am not doing too good am I?

Back on my friend's CS2 on his PC again - WXP PRO SP2.

I am now looking at CS2's 'history' window. From what I read in the
Help, the things I do are tracked in that window. I created a new
little window to play with, and drew four separate small 'brush'
strokes. I see that each time I did a stroke, a line was entered in
the history window. Then I thought I should be able to step back and
forth through my strokes by either clicking on a line in the history
window or by selecting edit>step backward (or) step forward. I
thought to do this would enable me to go back and re-do a stroke at
the point of my choice,

If I click on one of the lines in the history window, it highlights
it, and I expected to see JUST the strokes I had drawn UP TO THAT
POINT. But alas, I still see ALL FOUR strokes. The same thing
happens when I use 'step backward' & 'step forward'.

So clearly, I don't understand the purpose of the 'history'.

Can someone steer me here?

Thanks

2007-01-10, 6:20 pm

actually what you expected to happen IS what should happen... especially
when using step backward and step forward.

at first i wondered whether you might have been clicking in that little
blank square (causing a brush symbol to appear within)to the left of the
text on each history line, which sets the point of operation for the history
BRUSH tool, a slightly different thing which can actually overpaint regions
from a previous history state into the current one without erasing the rest
of the current state, hence you would see no immediate change in your
drawing until you chose the history brush and began painting...

but when you also indicated you were also using 'step backward' and not
seeing any of the 4 lines disappear, i was stumped. i repeated the process
you described in CS2, and as i expected, step backward began removing lines.
even when history was set to allow 'non-linear history', still, when
clicking backwards up the list or using step backward, the lines disappeared
in reverse order.

sorry i cant help solve your problem, but i hope my reply lessens your
confusion in that the history palette really IS meant to be as simple as you
had suspected.

"Jethro" <Wilson@somewhere.org> wrote in message
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>I want to start a new thread and am not doing too good am I?
>
> Back on my friend's CS2 on his PC again - WXP PRO SP2.
>
> I am now looking at CS2's 'history' window. From what I read in the
> Help, the things I do are tracked in that window. I created a new
> little window to play with, and drew four separate small 'brush'
> strokes. I see that each time I did a stroke, a line was entered in
> the history window. Then I thought I should be able to step back and
> forth through my strokes by either clicking on a line in the history
> window or by selecting edit>step backward (or) step forward. I
> thought to do this would enable me to go back and re-do a stroke at
> the point of my choice,
>
> If I click on one of the lines in the history window, it highlights
> it, and I expected to see JUST the strokes I had drawn UP TO THAT
> POINT. But alas, I still see ALL FOUR strokes. The same thing
> happens when I use 'step backward' & 'step forward'.
>
> So clearly, I don't understand the purpose of the 'history'.
>
> Can someone steer me here?
>
> Thanks

Jethro

2007-01-10, 6:20 pm

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:19:00 +1300, <pohutukawa_flower@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>actually what you expected to happen IS what should happen... especially
>when using step backward and step forward.
>
>at first i wondered whether you might have been clicking in that little
>blank square (causing a brush symbol to appear within)to the left of the
>text on each history line, which sets the point of operation for the history
>BRUSH tool, a slightly different thing which can actually overpaint regions
>from a previous history state into the current one without erasing the rest
>of the current state, hence you would see no immediate change in your
>drawing until you chose the history brush and began painting...
>
>but when you also indicated you were also using 'step backward' and not
>seeing any of the 4 lines disappear, i was stumped. i repeated the process
>you described in CS2, and as i expected, step backward began removing lines.
>even when history was set to allow 'non-linear history', still, when
>clicking backwards up the list or using step backward, the lines disappeared
>in reverse order.
>
>sorry i cant help solve your problem, but i hope my reply lessens your
>confusion in that the history palette really IS meant to be as simple as you
>had suspected.

Okay - I went back and re-tried the scenario, Guess what? It worked.
Of course it did. Well I have no idea what I was doing wrong before,
but being new to PS, I guess I could have been doing most anything.

Anyway thanks for your research and HNY

Jethro
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