Re: Lost tabs in photoshop

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
November 29, 2025
2 replies
305 views

WHY [cursing removed] CANNOT ADOBE ADD "UNDO LAST TOOL CHANGE"

I make the absolutely horrible mistake of touching the wrong key, don't know that I did that, can't figure out what's wrong, don't know what to Google for and the apparent Adobe attitude is, "You should know better."

Rob_Cullen

Community Expert

I think @brucekorb is asking about Tool settings and returning the tool to a default.

I am also curious. My frequent problem is with text -returning text size, leading, kerning, spacing, etc, to a default.

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .

D Fosse

Community Expert

Ok, take a breath. What exactly happened? Can you post a screenshot?

brucekorbAuthor

Inspiring

Press "F" and you'll go into the next "full screen" state. If you fumble-fingered that "F", you won't notice much difference, until you try to move a copy of a layer into another (now missing) tab -- or similar. It seems that there is a "really full screen" (which is a clear state) and "nearly full screen", which is hard to distinguish from tabbed, stretched out not-full-screen state. Obviously, I now know about these states and I won't be stymied again -- on this issue. PS doesn't give you a warning about fumble-fingered tool (or display) changes, so one is left trying to figure out what went wrong or, at least, how to describe the problem so you can Google up an answer. It took an inordinate amount of time that would be solved if Adobe were to put some effort into, you know, alerting people and/or making such changes clearer and reversible. "It's only a matter of programming."

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

@brucekorb - So what do you propose? Some sort of nag widow prompting you "did you really mean to press that button"?

An interface change isn't an edit, so an undo in the traditional sense wouldn't apply. Photoshop would need to track every interface event to offer an undo. This isn't a part of the current app design. I wish it was from an automation perspective (actions and scripts). It's obviously "just programming" but there are pros/cons that Adobe would need to decide whether the cost/benefit was worthwhile.

This post is a user to user "discussion", Adobe track "idea" posts which are feature requests.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded