![]() ![]() In order to provide the best platform for continued innovation, Jive no longer supports Internet Explorer 7. More questions on: Īttention, Internet Explorer User Announcement: Jive has discontinued support for Internet Explorer 7 and below. But there was no real way to know that back in 1997. It probably still is. Given how many more people these days that use Photoshop to do general graphic design, web design and production work – along with the introduction of Lightroom to cover more digital photography work and the popularity of the Creative Suite in general as an all purpose graphics suite - it might seem the right call would be to make the default Cmd-Z mimic multiple undo behavior. At the time, late 1997 or early 1998 or so, making the right decision was basically a crapshoot. To this day I hate this default behavior. I was only able to swallow that decision because we were adding customizable shortcuts soon enough so that I could change Cmd-Z to act like the way I wanted it to, and reassign the shortcut to Step Backward. I wanted Photoshop to follow the multiple undo behavior that most applications used at the time (and still do). Needless to say, I lost the argument about the default behavior (what got assigned to Cmd-Z for out of the box installation) with the introduction of History feature. Hitting Cmd-Z with this method helps someone to make a decision about whether the edit they just made is what they wanted. That behavior being that many photographers and image processing experts used the traditional Undo shortcut behavior to quickly make a change, then toggle back and forth rapidly to see the Before/After effect on the screen. We will cover the shortcut keys for undo as well as stepping backward and forward through the history states. Today I'm going to go over some of the basic undo options in Adobe Photoshop. ![]() Mark felt a certain image analysis behavior in Photoshop was more critical. I was always pressing for using the History feature to allow us to mimic the multiple undo behavior that Illustrator and Office used at the time, which meant hitting Cmd-Z multiple times would walk you back through multiple steps, or step backward. The main reason this behavior exists is this: Mark Hamburg and I got into a disagreement over what Undo should mean as we were adding the History feature into Photoshop 5.0. Before I explain, you can change the shortcut behavior in the edit Keyboard Shortcuts dialog so that Step Backwards is assigned to Cmd-Z (and therefore mimicking normal multiple undo behavior) while assigning Undo/Redo to Cmd-Opt-Z, which I do every time I install a new copy of Photoshop. Not because the answer itself is painful, but because I get asked this question so many times. ![]() Designer at Twitter, Was lead designer on Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign during the 90s This is a slightly painful story from my point of view, and one that still haunts me to this day. ![]()
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