DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

REGION III
Schools Division of Cabanatuan City
Maharlika Highway, Cabanatuan City

Adobe Photoshop
the Power of Undo

COMPUTER SCIENCE 2

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Writer and Layouter: Alora S. Santoyo (Teacher I, Marciano Del Rosario
Memorial National High School)

LEARNING RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT SECTION

Project EL AR: Enhance Learning thru Adequate Resources
 GUIDE FOR THE LEARNER, PARENTS,
GUARDIANS AND LEARNING FACILITATOR

To You, Learner:

Welcome to Computer Science 2 Self-Learning Module (SLM) on Adobe Photoshop

the Power of Undo! This module was made to give you with fun and meaningful time for
guided and independent learning at your convenience. You will be able to process the
contents of this Module while being an active learner.

To You, Parent/s, Guardian/s and Learning Facilitator/s:

This Module was collaboratively developed and reviewed by the teachers, school
heads and supervisors of DepEd Division of Cabanatuan City to assist you in helping the
learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their different
constraints in schooling. As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to
use this module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them
to manage their own learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.

This module is about the basic concepts and underlying principles of Photo Editing
specifically using the Adobe Photoshop. This module is designed to focus exploring photo
editing. It is enrich with different activities that will assess your level in terms of skills
and knowledge, that you are expected to demonstrate after completing this learn-
ing materials. It is divided into different sections - What Do You Know, What You Need to
Know and What Did You Learn. Go over with the suggested tasks and accomplish them to
practice developing a sustainable program, prioritizing needs and building vision.

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 OBJECTIVES

At the end of this self learning module, the learner is must be able to:

1. Identify the power of undo in Adobe Photoshop

2. Interpret the different shortcut key commands in Adobe Photoshop

3. Enumerate the steps on how to use history brush to undo work

COMPETENCY

Explore and examine the basic concepts and underlying principles of Photo
Editing specifically using the Adobe Photoshop

 The Power of Undo

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 WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW?

Direction: Give the command for the following shortcut key below, write
your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

1. Ctrl + A __________________________

2. Ctrlr + V __________________________

3. Ctrl + C __________________________

4. Ctrl + S __________________________

5. Ctrl + O __________________________

6. Ctrl + Z __________________________

7. Ctrl + B __________________________

8. Ctrl + U __________________________

9. Ctrl + P __________________________

10. Ctrl + I __________________________

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 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Power of Undo If you need to go back more than one step,
Edit ————-> Undo use the Step Backward command instead:
CTRL + Z Choose Edit→Step Backward (Alt+Ctrl+Z).
This command lets you undo the last 50
This command lets you undo the very last edit
you made. things you did, one at a time.

Changing How Far Back You Can Go

If you think you might someday need to go back further than your last 50 steps, you can make
Photoshop remember up to 1,000 steps by changing the program’s preferences. Here’s how:
1. Choose Photoshop→Preferences→Performance (Edit→Preferences→Performance on a PC).
2. In the Preferences dialog box’s History States field, pick the number of steps you want Photoshop
to remember.
You can enter any number between 1 and 1,000 in this field. While increasing the number of
history states might help you sleep better, doing so means Photoshop has to keep track of that
many more versions of your document, which requires more hard drive space and processing
power. So if you increase this setting and then notice that the program is running like molasses—
or you’re suddenly out of hard drive space—try lowering it.
3. Click OK when you’re finished.

Turning Back Time with the History Panel

Using the History panel is much quicker than undoing a long list of changes one by one, and it
gives you a nice list of exactly what tools and menu items you used to alter the image—in chron-
ological order from top to bottom—letting you pinpoint the exact state you want to jump back
to.
After you make a few changes to an image, pop open the History panel by clicking its button
(circled in Figure 1-10, top) or by choosing Window→History. When you do, Photoshop opens a list
of the last 50 things you’ve done to the image, including opening it

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 Figure 1-10. Top: The History panel keeps track of
everything you do to your images, starting with
opening them. You can even take snapshots of
an image at crucial points during the editing pro-
cess, such as when you convert it to black and
white and then add a color tint. Bottom: If you
take a snapshot, you can revert to that state later
with a single click. For example, if you’ve given
your image a sepia (brown) tint and later
changed it to blue, you can easily go back to the
sepia version by clicking the snapshot you took of
it, as shown here, without having to step back
through all the other changes you made.

The History Brush

The History Brush takes the power of the History panel and lets you focus it on specific parts of an
image. So instead of sending the entire image back in time, you can use this brush to paint edits
away selectively, revealing the previous state of your choosing.

Here’s how to use the History Brush to undo a serious burn you’ve applied:
1. Open an image—in this example, a photo of a person—and duplicate the image layer.
Choose File→Open; navigate to where the image lives on your computer, and then click
Open. Next, duplicate the layer by pressing ⌘-J (Ctrl+J).
2. Activate the Burn tool by pressing Shift-O and then darken part of your image.
The Burn tool lives in a toolset, so cycle through those tools by pressing Shift-O a couple of
times (its icon looks like a hand making an O shape). Then mouse over to your image and drag
across an area that needs darkening.
3. Grab the History Brush by pressing Y.
4. Open the History panel and then click a saved state or snapshot
This is where you pick which version of the image you want to go back to. If you dragged
more than once in step 2, you’ll see several Burn states listed in the panel
5. Mouse over to your image and drag to paint the areas that are too dark to reveal the lighter
version of the image
To make your change more gradual—if, say, you clicked the Open state but you don’t
want to erase all the darkening—just lower the Opacity setting in the Options bar.

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 Figure 1-11. By using the His-
tory Brush set to the image’s
earlier state—see step 4 be-
low—you can undo all kinds
of effects, including a little
over-darkening from using
the Burn tool. You can re-
duce the opacity of the His-
tory Brush in the Options bar
to make the change more
gradual.

The Revert Command

If you’ve taken your image down a path of craziness from which you can’t rescue it by using Un-
do or the History panel, you can revert back to its most recent saved state by choosing
File→Revert. This command opens the previously saved version of the image, giving you a quick
escape route back to square one.

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 WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED?

Direction: Write True if the statement is correct and write False if not. Write
your answer in a seprate sheet of paper.
_________ 1. Ctrl + Edit lets you undo the last 50 things you did, one at a time.

_________ 2. Photoshop only lets you undo changes back to the point when you first opened the

document you’re working on, meaning you can’t close a document and then undo

changes you made before you closed it.

_________ 3. This command, Ctrl + X lets you undo the very last edit you made.

_________ 4. History panel letting you pinpoint the exact state you want to jump back to.

_________ 5. The History brush keeps track of everything you do to your images, starting with

opening them.

_________ 6. The History Brush takes the power of the History panel and lets you focus it on specific

parts of an image.

_________ 7. The Burn tool lives in a toolset, so cycle through those tools by pressing Shift-O a cou-

ple of times (its icon looks like a hand making an O shape).

_________ 8. You can reduce the opacity of the History Brush in the Options bar to make the

change more gradual.

_________ 9. If you’ve taken your image down a path of craziness from which you can’t rescue it

by using Undo or the History panel, you can revert back to its most recent saved

state by choosing File→Revert.

_________ 10. Reset command opens the previously saved version of the image, giving you a

quick escape route back to square one.

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 ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY 1

Direction: Interpret the following command being use in Adobe Photoshop.

Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

1. Ctrl + Z Answer:

2. Edit ——> Undo Answer:

3. File ———> Open Answer:

4. Alt + Ctrl + Z Answer:

5. File ———> Revert Answer:

6. Ctrl + J Answer:

7. Shift—O Answer:

8. Edit ——-> Preferences——-> Performance Answer:

ENRICHMENT ACTIVITY 2

Direction:
A. Enumerate how to use the History Brush to undo a serious burn you’ve
applied: Write your answer in a separate sheet of paper.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

B. Enumerate the steps on how to change program’s preferences.

1.

2.

3.

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What Have You Learned What Do you Already Know
1. Copy all 6. Undo
1. True 6. False 2. Paste 7. Bold
2. True 7. True 3. Copy 8. Underline
3. False 8. True 4. Save 9. Print
4. True 9. True 5. Open File 10. Italicize
5. False 10. False
Enrichment Activity Number 1
1. This command lets you undo the very last edit you made.
2. This command lets you undo the very last edit you made.
3. To open an image
4. This command lets you undo the last 50 things you did, one at a time.
5. This command opens the previously saved version of the image, giving you a quick escape route
back to square one.
6. To duplicate layer of an image
7. To cycle the Burn which tool lives in a toolset
8. To change the program preferences
Enrichment Activity Number 2
A.
1. Open an image—in this example, a photo of a person—and duplicate the image layer.
2. Activate the Burn tool by pressing Shift-O and then darken part of your image.
3. Grab the History Brush by pressing Y
4. Open the History panel and then click a saved state or snapshot
5. Mouse over to your image and drag to paint the areas that are too dark to reveal the lighter ver-
sion of the image
B.
1. Choose Photoshop→Preferences→Performance (Edit→Preferences→Performance on a PC).
2. In the Preferences dialog box’s History States field, pick the number of steps you want Photoshop
to remember.
3. Click OK when you’re finished.
ANWER KEYS
 REFERENCES

Module

K-12 Basic Education Program Learning Materials 7/8 Adobe Photoshop Elements Techniques
Photoshop Tutorials / Tips & Tricks

Online Sources

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/photoshop-cc-the/9781491905593/ch01s03.html

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 Adobe Photoshop
The Power of Undo
This module is about The Power of Undo in Adobe Photoshop. The objectives of this module
is to identify how to use undo; to interpret the different shortcut key commands an to enumerate
the steps on how to use history brush to undo work. At the end of this module you are ex-
pected to be familiarize with Adobe Photoshop’s power of undo.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Region 3 Division of Cabanatuan City

Curriculum Implementation Division (CID)
Learning Resource Management and Development System (LRMDS)
This self-learning module (SLM) is developed by the SDO Cabanatuan City CID-LRMDS Team under
Project EL AR: Enhanced Learning thru Adequate Resources.
Cover and page elements illustrations by Jan Carl B. Briones ● Project EL AR logo by Gemmarie G. Rivas