Photoshop is a powerful photography and design program, but even the most experienced users make mistakes, and that's where the Photoshop History panel and Undo come in. Whether you just realized that you forgot to add a shadow to an element or that you accidentally deleted the entire layer, it's not difficult to delete something in Photoshop that cannot be easily fixed.
Let's get started and learn how to undo in Photoshop!
How to Undo in Photoshop
Option 1
Your first and easiest option when learning how to undo something in Photoshop is to use Control/Command-Z to Undo the last action you took.
You can keep pressing Control/Command-Z until you either run out of History States or you are back to where you want to be.
Option 2
The second option is to use the Photoshop History panel. You can open it by going to Window > History. This panel will give you a list of the actions and edits you've done so far.
To Undo, click on the last state you want to revert back to. All the History States that come after the selected state will turn gray. If you make a new edit or action, all the greyed-out states will be deleted and replaced with the new edit.
That's It!
That's how to undo something in Photoshop. Whether you prefer to use the Photoshop History panel or the good old Control/Command-Z shortcut will come down to personal preference. There's no wrong way to undo, as long as you know how to!
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Note: This tutorial was written with the aid of an artificial intelligence tool. It has been thoroughly edited and checked for accuracy by the Envato Tuts+ editorial team.
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