Best Photoshop Feature You've Never Heard Of?

I went to a Photoshop Seminar yesterday given by Katrin Eismann.
As is the norm for most of these things, she covered a wealth of
information and it all comes at you rather quickly. She covered her
specialties, Layers, Masking, Compositing, etc., as well as some of the

new features of Photoshop CS2 such as Camera RAW.
Most of the info was old news to me, but I always learn something new
at these seminars, which I highly recommend.
http://www.software-cinema.com/camps.php


One feature of both CS and CS2 that I'd never heard of is the ability
to save all of your Photoshop modifications into the History Log. This

is an option under Preferences/General.
Katrin suggests that you choose the "Metadata" and the "Detailed"
settings here. What this does is to save a record of any change you've

made to the file and embed the information into the metadata of the
file itself. Photoshop records every setting you used to alter the
image.
The info can be viewed later using the "File Info" command. Also, it
doesn't add too much to the file size of the image since it is just
embedding some additional text. Cool stuff.


Btw, if you want to purchase any of the training DVDs on the Software
Cinema website I have a coupon code that'll get you 15% off. Just
e-mail me.

Any other surprises in Photoshop that people have discovered recently?
The "Blend If" sliders were new to me before I went to a PS seminar
last year.

I can't find this History Log option in PS Elements 2.0 and 4.0, are
they only in CS and CS2?

Annika1980 wrote:

I went to a Photoshop Seminar yesterday given by Katrin Eismann.
As is the norm for most of these things, she covered a wealth of
information and it all comes at you rather quickly. She covered her
specialties, Layers, Masking, Compositing, etc., as well as some of the

new features of Photoshop CS2 such as Camera RAW.
Most of the info was old news to me, but I always learn something new
at these seminars, which I highly recommend.
http://www.software-cinema.com/camps.php

One feature of both CS and CS2 that I'd never heard of is the ability
to save all of your Photoshop modifications into the History Log. This

is an option under Preferences/General.
Katrin suggests that you choose the "Metadata" and the "Detailed"
settings here. What this does is to save a record of any change you've

made to the file and embed the information into the metadata of the
file itself. Photoshop records every setting you used to alter the
image.
The info can be viewed later using the "File Info" command. Also, it
doesn't add too much to the file size of the image since it is just
embedding some additional text. Cool stuff.

Btw, if you want to purchase any of the training DVDs on the Software
Cinema website I have a coupon code that'll get you 15% off. Just
e-mail me.

Any other surprises in Photoshop that people have discovered recently?
The "Blend If" sliders were new to me before I went to a PS seminar
last year.

--
Anabella M.

.....it's better to have loved and lost
than to have never seen "Lost in Space"!
--Kelly Bundy

I can't find this History Log option in PS Elements 2.0 and 4.0, are
they only in CS and CS2?

That's correct, it is a new feature. Prior to the release of CS many
people complained that there was no way to save the history state. You
could save a layered file with all your adjustment layers intact, but
there was no way to tell how you got there.