Photoshop: 'Save with history'

I currently can’t locate the thread(s) on this, but the drawback with regard to file-size (and therefore performance) could probably be very significant.
And pre-calculating file-sizes is not always reasonable.

»In that way, other people that open your file can see the steps you've made, and you can get back to how you started a year after your project is finished.«
You may be aware of that and just feel it is insufficient for your needs, but if one adheres to the principles of non-destructive image editing I think one can do that just fine as is.

Set by menu and check box. Default probably should be off. (two separate check boxes)

History crashes or you want to be able to undo some things after you close the file.

I'm aware that this will make the file size larger, but sometimes I want to shut down and have the snapshots still there in the morning just in case I screw up. As much as I love Photoshop, I can't do it in my sleep and my compie needs a break too.

So please let us save history/protect history upon exiting the program.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
History crash protection/Hitsory saving.

Oft weiss man nicht, an welcher Position im Protokoll man eine bestimmte Datei wie und mit welchem Namen gespeichert hat.
Ich hätte gern einen Protokolleintrag, wenn ich eine Datei speichere oder exportiere (Für web speichern). Rückgängig machen läßt der sich natürlich nicht, soll nur als Info dienen.
Der Eintrag sollte enthalten, unter welchem Namen, Dateityp und auf welche Art gespeichert wurde. (z.B.: "blabla.png, PNG24, Für Web" oder "test.psd, PSD, Als Kopie")

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
history step at saving // Protokoll Eintrag beim Speichern.

How would it be to have some options for saving the protocoll in an usable form?
Till now it is impossible to close a running workflow n keep the protocoll for the next time i ll get in work again except as a textversion but who needs that except for some tut ́s? I want to save my protocoll in the psd file in a way that i could use it like i ́ve never closed my work. In my opinion that ́s one of the biggest deficits of photoshop!

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Usable Protocoll Saving.

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Save Photoshop History in a PSD file.

When I (re)open a PSD file in Photoshop it would be really nice if the History was still available.
Can my History (like 40 History states) be saved in my PSD file?

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Retaining the History of project even after closing and then reopening the same project.

Though Photoshop is a great tool but I think it would be great if we could retain the history of a project. I would make myself clear this way... If I'm working on a project and for the reason I have to save and quit the application. when I return back and reopen the same project all the previous history is gone. It starts where I left off but still the history is all blank no details of previous session.

Though I started this Topic, I now fully believe in using a non destructive workflow.
Sorry for starting this topic, I know better now! It's a dumb idea.
What did I know, 2 years ago...
With smart objects, smart filters, layer masks and layer comps, anything can be undone.

In retouching - it's impossible to save every brush stroke on a different layer. One can lose hundreds if not thousands of strokes once a file is closed. Yes, you can throw out everything and start over - or work in small sections on individual laters.

But it's really horrible to not be able to go backwards step-by-step on any given file after having closed it. I'd gladly sacrifice memory and or disk space to get true step by step history reproduction from start to finish - as an option - when I required it. It's already there when the file is open - a SAVE option isn't rocket science.

Exactly. This is an obvious and large deficiency in PS. I want a new WYSIWYG: What You Save Is What You Get. If I save an image with a long history, then close it, I should see that same history when I open it again. Arguments about laborious manual alternatives or RAM or disk space are ridiculous. Programmatically, the change is relatively trivial. If I want to use resources to accomplish it, that should be my choice, and the default. The opened file should take up no more RAM than it did before I saved and closed it, and disk space is cheap.

Ah, the ol' Argument From Authority approach. I'll retract the word "trivial", but I have not been given any contradictory evidence, just blanket statements. I've not argued the file would not be bigger, but define "huge". An order of magnitude larger? For, say, a file with 50 history states? If the history states are matched up in memory before closing, why not exactly replicate them in memory again? If you can output all the steps to a log, why not just replay it? I do not know the method by which a single history state is stored (e.g. using deltas or compression), but if PS can save up to 8000 layers, it would seem feasible to save some fraction of that from the history. My raw photos are roughly 30MB. If I do lots of work on them, they may balloon to 200MB. If saving the history with important files bloats them to 2GB, I'm OK with that. It's obviously a feature lots of people want. Heck, turn it off by default. And if people use it, warn them: "Yer file is gonna get huuuggge!".

Could there be an option to make a second file for the history states to be available again but not getting the PSD file larger? a ".history" file lets say with all the needed data and a dialog box when saving "should photoshop save a history file?" 

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled DREAM ON... FULL HISTORY is preserved (Save w/History).

DREAM ON... Would love it if there was a feature that when saving, the FULL HISTORY is preserved (Save w/History) with the .psd file so that when you open that .psd the FULL HISTORY is intact...