New Free Action - Strange History...

[Benny Pedersen]

Continued from
http://www.photoshopelementsuser.com...ad.php?t=14490

Hi
After I saw a tutorial about rings, I added a new action into my
free action pack. A strange thing about this new action is that the whole story was written into the 'undo history' - so if you open, or create a new image in Elements and then hit the Rings Action, then you can select the
first item in the Undo History Palette, step forward one step, next step, and so on - see how I created an action while I was reading an online tutorial...
We could simply read a 'undo history', as/it's a tutorial...

Benny

[graficalicus]

bravo!

[Benny Pedersen]

Originally Posted by graficalicus

bravo!

http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tu...etail&tutid=54

Thanks Grafi - So why is the full story written in undo
- btw. thanks for your mail in my privat box

Tips of the day: Make 90% gray - have two layers like this:
Fill a layer using Ctrl+Backspace.
Fill another layer, Alt+Backspace.
Select the 'Black' top layer and press the num key 9

[graficalicus]

So why is the full story written in undo

it's your History palette - you can tell it how many steps to "remember" in the Preferences panel (I like to keep mine set pretty high - 25 ~ 30 steps). It's like a written record of what you've done to an image so far - just like you said.

It's pretty handy if you go too far with an image and need to backtrack a bit - you can also create a "snapshot" of an image at a certain stage (in PS - haven't tried in PSE.... hmmmm....!) if you want to experiment a bit further but not lose what you've done already.

This ring looks cool to add to other images - flatten it, change it's blend to Soft Light or Overlay and it'll make grey areas "disappear" - - I'll play later!

[Benny Pedersen]

Thanks Grafi

Yes I knew but I didn't do any settings about undo.
The other actions that I had created only wrote one item
in the history namely the name of that action. so you could
go one step back. I will now do some experiments and figure
it out...