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Title: dont u just love
Post by: rogerdee on January 12, 2006, 03:59:06 PM

Dont u just love it when after spending a few hours doing some skining  u go to save your  work as a bit map to view it,get distracted  by someone   and save it wrong  over the top or what u did.

 lol just did this after  months of on off workon a skin.Tha teaches me to change to xp home edition.
:cry :cry

Title: dont u just love
Post by: Krusty on January 12, 2006, 07:11:37 PM

Don't blame XP for your mistake lol :D

I work in photoshop, and I save in numbered versions. So if I do make a really stupd move and do something like that I usually can save as "new name here" then undo to the "Open File" entry in the history, and save as the "old name here".

DISCLAIMER: Won't work if you close out PS. The history is memory-resident and is wiped when you close a file.

Title: dont u just love
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 13, 2006, 08:21:14 PM

I think the latest Photoshop comes with a groupware/version control system. I didn't install it, I use TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/) and Subversion instead. It's a programmers version control, but works on binary files too. Integrates right into the desktop explorer, lets me group files into projects and reset the whole deal to some past checkpoint.

Title: dont u just love
Post by: Knite on January 13, 2006, 10:18:15 PM

I actually do my own manual version control. Occasionally while working, especially after making a MAJOR change, I'll just change my file name from P38J_kwitch_v1 to P38J_kwitch_v2, so I can always go back to v1 and pull a layer if I really need to step backwards.

Title: dont u just love
Post by: Krusty on January 14, 2006, 01:18:20 AM

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Originally posted by Knite
I actually do my own manual version control. Occasionally while working, especially after making a MAJOR change, I'll just change my file name from P38J_kwitch_v1 to P38J_kwitch_v2, so I can always go back to v1 and pull a layer if I really need to step backwards.

That's what I'll do too. If I make a minor change (testing different colors, different layer options or just minor changes) I might go to "109E4_1" "109E4_2" "109E4_2a" "109E4_2b" "109E4_3" etc...

EDIT: I mean the a b c are minor, the 1 2 3 major.

Title: dont u just love
Post by: DoKGonZo on January 14, 2006, 03:27:14 AM

That's how I used to do it too.

But using SVN lets me add comments to each revision so I know how to get back to a known place without wiggy file naming tricks. And if you're working on stuff that requires multiple files it's invaluable to be able to get them all out as of some version. For single-file Photoshop, that feature isn't as big a deal, of course.

Title: dont u just love
Post by: straffo on January 14, 2006, 08:59:03 AM

Being a lazy bastard when I was working on my typhoon texture I  was using a  VSS base :)

Title: dont u just love
Post by: Widewing on January 14, 2006, 10:25:46 AM

I hated when I would inadvertantly over-write a file.... :mad:

My advice is to always use the "save as" command and rename each update to the file (-1,-2 etc).

My regards,

Widewing