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Inspiring
September 20, 2024

New snapshot options (after the ellipsis)

  • September 20, 2024
  • 25 replies
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Hi-

In Photoshop 25.12 on Mac 14.6.1 going into the history flyout panel to "New Snapshot" no longer opens the additional options box for selecting current layer.  Instead, a new overal snapshot is produced like it would be if you clicked the little camera icon at the bottom of the palette.  Any idea if something has changed?

 

25 replies

Participant
October 16, 2024

I have also noticed that in the latest version of Photoshop, the 'Snapshot' dialogue box no longer appears (even though I have the option enabled in the protocol options). I used to be able to use it to overwrite existing snapshots with the same name, but now it just creates a snapshot without asking me.

Is there any way you can fix this? It is really disrupting my workflow and it would be great to have this feature back.

Inspiring
October 16, 2024

I hope this get fixed soon. We use snapshots in a lot of actions and need the naming option. Please Adobe Team fix this soon? Pretty please?

Inspiring
September 21, 2024

Thank you Stephen. 

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 20, 2024

As a temporary workaround until fixed, this can be scripted:

 

 

/*
New Snapshot Script.jsx
A temporary hack to workaround a bug in Ps 2024 (25.12.0)
v1.0 - 21st September 2024, Stephen Marsh
https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-bugs/new-snapshot-options-after-the-ellipsis/idc-p/14872580
*/

#target photoshop

// Main function to create snapshot
function makeSnapshot(fromParam) {
    var s2t = function (s) {
        return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
    };
    var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
    var reference = new ActionReference();
    var reference2 = new ActionReference();
    reference.putClass(s2t("snapshotClass"));
    descriptor.putReference(s2t("null"), reference);
    reference2.putProperty(s2t("historyState"), s2t("currentHistoryState"));
    descriptor.putReference(s2t("from"), reference2);
    descriptor.putEnumerated(s2t("using"), s2t("historyState"), s2t(fromParam));
    executeAction(s2t("make"), descriptor, DialogModes.NO);
}

// Create the user interface
var dlg = new Window("dialog", "New Snapshot Script");
dlg.orientation = "column";
dlg.alignChildren = ["center", "top"];
dlg.spacing = 10;
dlg.margins = 16;

// Create dropdown with user-friendly labels
var dropdownItems = [
    ["Full Document", "fullDocument"],
    ["Merged Layers", "mergeLayersNew"],
    ["Current Layer", "currentLayer"]
];

var dropdown = dlg.add("dropdownlist");
for (var i = 0; i < dropdownItems.length; i++) {
    dropdown.add("item", dropdownItems[i][0]);
}
dropdown.selection = 0;

// Create buttons
var btnGroup = dlg.add("group");
btnGroup.orientation = "row";
var okBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "OK");
var cancelBtn = btnGroup.add("button", undefined, "Cancel");

// Button click handlers
okBtn.onClick = function() {
    var selectedValue = dropdownItems[dropdown.selection.index][1];
    makeSnapshot(selectedValue);
    dlg.close();
};

cancelBtn.onClick = function() {
    dlg.close();
};

// Show the dialog
dlg.show();

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 20, 2024

I can confirm with an Intel Mac running Photoshop 25.12.0 and OS 13.7

 

Holding down the Option modifier key when pressing the snapshot icon at the foot of the panel doesn't work either.