Week 3 Review -- History Panel

The History Panel is a list, a record, of the steps that you have applied to an image in Photoshop. You can use that list to return to a previous state to undo a "mistake" and, you can save the history information embedded in the meta data of the file or write it to a separate text file.

(I was thinking you could reload the history data and use it over, but, that is not the case, you can do that with Actions!) Every time you load an image into Photoshop, the history will be appended.

Here's a Quick way to use the history panel and the history brush to add a little color back to a black and white photo...

Started with this Photo taken from my Clark College Photowalk 2 Class



According to the history file this is what I did
2011-02-08 11:41:39    File Historybrush (1 of 1).jpg opened
        Open
            Macintosh HD:Users:gts:Desktop:Historybrush (1 of 1).jpg
        Select snapshot “Historybrush (1 of 1).jpg”
        Select last history state
        Select Current History State
        Select snapshot “Historybrush (1 of 1).jpg”
    Duplicate Layer
        Duplicate current layer
            2
    Black & White 1 Layer
        Make adjustment layer
            Using: adjustment layer
            Type: black and white
            Preset Kind: Custom
            red: 118
            yellow: 60
            green: -22
            cyan: 60
            blue: -79
            magenta: 123
            Without tinting
            tint color: RGB color
            Red: 225
            Green: 211
            Blue: 179
        Select layer “Black & White 1”
            Modification: Add Continuous
            Without Make Visible
        Select layer “Background copy”
            Modification: Add Continuous
            Without Make Visible
    Flatten Image
        Flatten Image
        Set History Brush Source
            To: history state -3
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    Undo
    History Brush
        Select brush
        Select history brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    Undo
        Select previous history state
        Select previous history state
    History Brush
    Undo
    History Brush
    Undo
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
    History Brush
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    History Brush
        Select history state -18
        Select last history state
        Select history state -9
        Select previous history state
        Select previous history state
        Select previous history state
        Select previous history state
        Delete Current History State
        Select last history state
    History Brush
    History Brush
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2011-02-08 11:50:55    File Historybrush (b-w).jpg saved
        Save
            As: JPEG
            Quality: 12
            Matte: none
            In: Macintosh HD:Users:gts:Desktop:Historybrush (b-w).jpg
            With Lower Case
Here's the results