undo bitmap?

[John Hill]

Hi, is there any way to "undo" an image after I flattened/saved it to
bitmap? (undo CNTL + Z not an option - too late for that)

Thanks.

John

[Ilya Razmanov]

"John Hill" <jhill@hil-tec.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, is there any way to "undo" an image after I flattened/saved it to
> bitmap? (undo CNTL + Z not an option - too late for that)
>
> Thanks.
>
> John

No. If you've run out of "undo history", or saved your image into bitmap and
closed, there is no way to restore the original vector state.

Some image editing actions are irreversible. This is especially true for
bitmaps. This is why I, personally, keep dozens of project variants as PNGs
while working on a single project, and often make layers and stuff invisible
instead of removing them. Yes, it increases disk space useage, and so on and
so on, but now I'm always sure that I wouldn't have to spend a couple of
days redoing something that I lost occasionally.

Ilyich.
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[John Hill]

Thanks Illya, I was afraid of that - good advice I shall follow from now on!

John

"Ilya Razmanov" <ilyich@ioc.ac.ru> wrote in message
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>
> "John Hill" <jhill@hil-tec.com> wrote in message
> news:bln4oe$kts$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> > Hi, is there any way to "undo" an image after I flattened/saved it to
> > bitmap? (undo CNTL + Z not an option - too late for that)
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > John

>
> No. If you've run out of "undo history", or saved your image into bitmap

and

> closed, there is no way to restore the original vector state.
>
> Some image editing actions are irreversible. This is especially true for
> bitmaps. This is why I, personally, keep dozens of project variants as

PNGs

> while working on a single project, and often make layers and stuff

invisible

> instead of removing them. Yes, it increases disk space useage, and so on

and

> so on, but now I'm always sure that I wouldn't have to spend a couple of
> days redoing something that I lost occasionally.
>
> Ilyich.
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> Ilya Razmanov (a.k.a. Ilyich the Toad)
> [url]http://photoshop.msk.ru/[/url] - Photoshop plug-in filters
> "Should we interrogate them, Sam? Or just start
> breaking up the furniture?" - Max, Sam and Max "Surfin' the highway"
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>
>
>

[Lanny Chambers]

In article <bln4oe$kts$1@forums.macromedia.com>,
"John Hill" <jhill@hil-tec.com> wrote:

> Hi, is there any way to "undo" an image after I flattened/saved it to
> bitmap?

Nope. Always, always, always save the source PNG. Within a source PNG,
always save a copy of the elements to a hidden layer before flattening.

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
[url]http://www.hummingbirds.net/[/url]