Filters and History Part II

Here's the progress so far. We have a History Pallete with 3 snapshots.

You should now save your image, possibly with a new name i.e. if the original image's name was bridge then you could save as bridge_1. Then you have not altered the original AND you have a new image that has your alterations to it. Any more work and you can save it as bridge_2 and so on ....

Here we are again at the History Pallete. Look carefully and you'll see that the top snapshot is currently active (click on it to activate). Also the small thingy (B) is pointing at this snapshot too.

Item (A) is the History Brush SOURCE. Just click in the appropriate box to select the source you require.

Now go to the toolbar and select the History Brush (as shown here). This tool acts in a very similar manner to the other brush-like tools in Photoshop, except that is contains no colours for it's "colour" it uses the History Brush source (and that we set in the previous section).

If you click & paint with this brush you'll see that you are applying the Paint_Daubs snapshot contents to the original!

You can use the different snapshots as sources for the history brush.

By using them in combination you can create a mixture of filters (non-filtered affects too, i.e your own work)

Here's the final image. No! It's not meant to be art, it's only an example.

Find_edges applied to the left/right areas & the Paint_Daubs applied to the tree.

Hope you've enjoyed this one!

Top tip ... Keyboard CTRL + f will apply the filter again to *any* active image.

Email me if you have a question!