Don’t you just hate it when that happens?
Ok, a bit flip. I sympathize with you Andrew. Been there.
I think we all have at one time or another.
You force yourself to get into the habit of frequently saving your work and then you do it without thinking 🙁
Absolutely Not, Andrew. Once flattened, that’s it as far the layers are concerned.
Not till you save it Len!
If the file is still open, go back in history, if the flattening step is still there.
Well what did I say then?
John,
O/P says:
"The problem was that I then saved the file"
I think we can assume he also closed it…
I would never make that assumption. Some peope might not realize that you can go back in History to before a Flatten or Save.
And a tip for the future, whenever you need a flattened version for some kind of temporary export or any kind of use, do it by way of going Image-Duplicate. Your original will not be affected, and you even have the option in Duplicate to check the box that makes your duplicate with all the layers merged together. There’s no danger of overwriting something you need as the duplicate is a separate file with "copy" added to the name by default.
To continue on PeterK’s suggestion, using incremental numbers when doing so is a good idea. (do not forget to clean the working folders from time to time)
Have an auto-snapshot creation when saving might bee useful too.
hello all you guys – well, yes, I did close the file – it was late at night, etc etc. I have learned my lesson.
I was wondering if Photoshop (like MS Word) autosaves the file in temp files and whether I could find an older saved version in one of these temp files. – but seems not.
🙁
Nice idea, but an autosave feature would need a lot of resources which many users don’t have available.
