Undoing mistakes in Photoshop
Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by admin in Basic
Lets face it we all make mistakes. Now admit it, we only really learn by making mistakes! In a perfect world we would never have to backtrack. Using photoshop as an artistic tool is an amazing thing, for instance if i was painting a picture on canvas i would be mortified if i made a mistake and couldn’t fix it with a swoosh of a brush!
One of the major powers in Photoshop is the ability to backtrack and undo you those mistakes so that you can try other options. This tutorial provides you with an opportunity to experiment freely, knowing that you can go back and change anything that you do wrong or otherwise!
The file for this tutorial has a layerd psd file that has several kinds of layers. You don’t have to understand what the layers do to complete this tutorial successfully, so don’t worry if you get a little lost.
Undo Tutorial Files -
Note: Your really should start to use adobe bridge for all you images you work on. Sort your files in easy to find folders and put them in the favourites in adobe bride! You ll thank me later.
Undoing a single action
Even beginning computer users quickly come to appreciate the familiar Undo command. As you will do each time you start a new project, you’ll begin by looking at the final result.
Step 1 Download the tutorial file above and open the file in adobe bridge ( i do love adobe bridge and so should you.) Place it where you want to, i chose a “tutfile” folder as shown to the right.
Step 2 Select the undo-tut-files.psd file, press Shift, and select the undo-tut-files-end.psd file. Both files appear in the Preview panel. In the start file,the clouds are clearish; in the end file, it
is stormy.
Step 3 Double-click on the undo-tut-files.psd file thumbnail and adobe bridge will open it up in photoshop.
Step 4 In the Layers panel, select the sky clipping layer shown to the right.
Note Check out the different layers. The sky clipping layer is a clipping mask. A clipping mask works like a selection in that it constricts the area of the image that can be edited.
With the clipping mask in place, you can paint a design over the tie without worrying about any stray brush strokes disturbing the rest of the image. You’ve selected the sky clipping layer because it’s the layer you’ll be editing now.
Step 5 In the Tools panel, select the Brush tool, or press B to select it by its keyboard shortcut.
Step 6 In the options bar at the top of the screen, click the brush size to open the Brushes panel. Scroll down the list of brushes and select the Soft Round 65-pixel brush. ( if you hold your mouse over the square it will pop up with the name of the brush) If you want to try a different brush, that’s great. Select a gray colour.
Step 7 Now we want to roughly paint in the dark stormy clouds. Click and hold your button and paint over the clouds that are already there. Now look at what you have done. I don’t think the gray is the right color! right ?
Step 8 Choose Edit > Undo Brush Tool, or press Ctrl+Z (Windows) or Command+Z (Mac OS) to undo the Brush tool action.
The image is now back to the original before you mucked it up! That is the power of the photoshop undo. Soon we will show you how you can undo multiple levels of errors. Thanks and i hope you learned something.
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