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How to purge your Photoshop history states

How to purge your Photoshop history states

From the course: Creative Quick Tips

How to purge your Photoshop history states

- Hi there, Justin Seeley here with another edition of Creative Quick Tips. Today, I'm gonna be showing you how to speed Photoshop up a little bit by using something called the Purge command inside of Photoshop. Did you even know Photoshop had a Purge command? Well, until I did some research, I really didn't either. But in this movie, I'm gonna show you what it is, how it works, and when you might want to use it. So as you work in Photoshop, Photoshop actually keeps track of a lot of different things that you probably didn't know about. For instance, your Clipboard. Photoshop is always remembering what's on your Clipboard, whether you had something on it when you came in or not, Photoshop is always keeping track of it. Also, Photoshop keeps a minimum of 20 history states when you first fire up the program. Now you can obviously change this, and I've covered that in previous movies, but as you go, 20 history states carries a whole lot of baggage. And for people who are running…

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