Make a Snapshot before you start, or at whatever point you want, then Clear History? The Snapshot should stay. Is that what you need?
I wonder what problems you are refering to the tool making in the first place. are you sure you understand how it functions to begin with?
Why bother deleting them at all? Just move up in the history to the last location you want to start at, and do something – they are automatically deleted.
I was going to suggest that myself, but got the impression he was refering to sporatic steps within the history.
Ah. A non-linear history maybe.
Bearing in mind what the others said, I would rethink my way of working it sounds far from optimum.
Excellent. YrbkMgr, thanks. It was the last several steps that I wanted to delete. Clicking on the last good history step and working did the trick.
As far as am I using the spot healing tool properly or not, who knows? Sometimes it adds it adds things that I don’t want.
Sometimes it adds it adds things that I don’t want.
Yeah, it pays to play with the options bar when the tool is selected, depending on the what you’re spot healing. I find the regular healing tool much more predictable, personally.
Also a quick Ctrl + Z after any false step speeds things up. My left hand is always hovering over that corner of the keyboard during retouching.
I feel sorry for the Germans: their Z is where our Y is!
And don’t forget Control Alt Z to step backward through the history…
My left hand is always hovering over that corner of the keyboard during retouching
Mine too.
It is the first thing I tell others when they learn Photoshop: ALT, CTRL and Shift needs to be easily available, and the spacebar too!
Try doing your retouching on a new layer. That way you can quickly and non destructively undo edits – even selectively, using layer masks.
