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JRCnrd — Fixing Ctrl+Z in Photoshop
Published: 2011-02-20 19:54:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 13147; Favourites: 84; Downloads: 214
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Thanks to ~MinervaGem for the tip!
Figured I'd through this together to show people how to make Ctrl+Z do what it's supposed to do in Photoshop. One history state? BITCH, PLEASE.
This seems like more trouble then it's worth. Why should I bother?
Simple. You only have to futz with this process ONCE. After you save your shortcuts, you never have to do this ever again. Even if you reset Photoshop to the factory defaults, just load up the KYS file or set it to your custom workspace, and the shortcuts will be back to the way you had set them.
I actually enjoy the default Ctrl+Z Function, why should I care?
This guide is meant to show people how to edit shortcuts, I simpley used the Ctrl+Z shortcut as an example. It is a shortcut I don't see as all that useful, but some of you might, and that is your opinion, and I respect that.
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thank you so much!!! I just got photoshop, and this helped me so much!!!!
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You saved me from a life of misery
Thank you... so much ! :'D
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how can i increase the times i can do these ctrl+z? thank you for this advice :'D
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Preferences>Performance, Then edit the amount of History states. To be honest, you shouldn't go above 50 unless you have a very powerful machine, because otherwise it just eats ups memory, which slows everything down.
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one downside: if you make some actions after stepping backward multiple times (let's call the time before you step backward (A) ), and not sastify with the result, you can't go back to the time (A), it's gone.
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history states are auto-saved as you work on a file, but only for as long as said file is open. Once it is closed, all history states are deleted. The only way to permantly keep a history state is to save it out as a seperate document
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I don't think it works on CS1, I went to Workspace thing but there wasn't any ''Keyboard shortcuts and menus''...
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I find the ctrl-alt-z function quite useful, cause if I go faaar back(let's say I edited alot of layers)and then click ctrl-z I can go all the way to the newest action again to see the difference^^(besides I've got tablet so I just programmed them in as undo and redo^^'''').
But this tutorial really is helpful in showing people how to edit shortcuts( I didn't know it was possible >.>...)and that was what you wanted it to be^^.
Well done
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thing is, what if you ctrl+z one too many times? you can undo-undo that with ctrl+z.. and if you need to undo more than once, ctrl+alt+z is not hard to reach.. but yeah.. just my opinion.. i use both..
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You can only go back as many historty states you have saved.
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Upon baying CS5 I've loved all except this, but you helped me solve the problem. I thank you deeply.
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Why are people getting so butthurt about it? Either make your PS undo as it should or dont
I use the GIMP, where we can undo properly right away (or undo incorrectly too, with the shortcut modifiers )
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Basically I get what you're saying and I like it.
For some people that aren't used to having to go Ctrl+Alt+Z to go back a step and ARE used to going Ctrl+Z (a common combo for Undo). This can be very useful. If anything, we can now set it so that Ctrl+Alt+Z to do what Ctrl+Z is; simply shifting the priority of things for the sake of ease of use.
Nothing wrong with adjusting YOUR photoshop for comfort. If you like it by default, cool.
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I love you heather. MARRY ME, PLZ.
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WHOA NOW. Going a little fast there. Calm your rolls there.
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What rolls? I'm all skin and bones.
oh god. bad partial rhyme. My apologies.
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I'M SO SORRY. PLEASE FORGIVE ME
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this is kinda pointless cause after pressing CTRL ALT Z, a few times you can press CTRL Z once to see if you like the changes and then press it again to redo all the change, so it is pretty good to have .
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That's not the point of the tutorial.
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no offence ment but to me this is no fix. if you work professinally with photoshop you very(!) often need to check your last change (filter, brushstroke whatever). therefore with Strg+Z you can switch between previous state and current state. even better: if you want wo check a change that took you more than one step - go back several steps with ALT+Strg+Z and then again compare with ALT+Z.
this behavior is not something adobe has overlooked; actually it's quite the opposite - it's a powerful tool everybody should use
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