: How to keep Photoshop history snapshots? I have a design layout in Photoshop, I have several different "snapshots" in my history each with s slight color variation. I know if I save the file

@Becky351

There's no native way as far as I know that you can keep history of actions taken. It would take a huge amount of memory or disk space too. However, there's a workaround with Layer Comps where you can save different versions of your work effectively. It is not exactly the same, but it is more effective than just trying saving snapshots.

Check out the great lesson of Chris Converse in Lynda of how you use the layer comps.

Designing the web: Layer Comps

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@Cooney243

You can save any snapshot by right clicking on it and save it to new file. That way you can keep certain whatever snapshot you like.

Other way would be, that you create an action that allows you to create a snapshot an make a new file, save this file and close it - all in one "step" (which is, what I usually use).

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@BetL875

One of the best solutions out there for this kind of situation is the Visual Versioning in GridIron Flow, which automatically saves versions with thumbnails as you work. Flow solves a lot of other problems as well (such as alerting you when you're about to delete an asset you forgot was included in a project, automatic time sheet tracking, etc.), and makes maps of your projects that show where assets came from and how they relate to one another in an interactive map. I don't know of anything else that is as fast and easy to use for versioning.

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@Holmes874

You could SAVE A COPY... of the current file, go back one snapshot, SAVE A COPY of that, and repeat going back as far as you want to go.

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