history state

In the fourth video of our nine part series on preferences in Photoshop Elements we'll explore the performance tab. Home to numerous settings that affect the technical abilities of Elements, we'll dive into the details of how they work and the various ways you can ensure Photoshop Elements is working to its optimum by ensuring things such as scratch disks and RAM allocation are set up properly; and that history states and cache levels are working for you rather than against you.

The history panel has been around for a while but it's still an integral part of Photoshop. If you're like me, then you're prone to making the odd mistake every once in a while, thanksfully the history panel gives us the opportunity of stepping  back in time and revisiting older versions, or 'states' as Photoshop calls them, of the open image. Whilst this all sounds grand, there's a few things to know: history states don't save with an image, there's not an endless amount of them, and they can be non-descript at times. For more info, watch the video!