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Undo A Save? That’s Impossible, Isn’t It?

 

This is a great trick we learned from our buddy Mike Ninness, and the first time we saw it, we said, “Hey, wait a minute, that can’t be.” Oh, but it be. It’s how to undo a Save. This is especially helpful after you’ve flattened an image, saved the file, then realized that you needed to change something on a layer. This only happens to us about every other day, and here’s the keyboard shortcut to fix it: Command-Option-Z (PC: Control-Alt-Z). Press it a few times after you’ve flattened and saved, and look in your Layers palette to see all the layers come a-rumbling right back. Pretty slick stuff.

5 Comments

  1. Julie said on — April 8, 2010 @ 2:57 am

    For this trick alone, I think I love you.

  2. jorge said on — February 13, 2011 @ 9:10 pm

    WOW, thanks, you saved me!

  3. davidlupica said on — February 16, 2011 @ 2:55 am

    didn’t work for me

  4. pip said on — March 15, 2011 @ 9:52 am

    love you!!!!!

  5. alex said on — March 25, 2011 @ 11:46 pm

    you just saved my life.

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Create A Composite Layer

If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.

Another option is to create a new layer at the top of the stack and make it active. Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) each layer you want to include to make those layers active, as well. Press Option-Command-E (PC: Alt-Ctrl-E).
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