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September 20, 2024

New snapshot options (after the ellipsis)

  • September 20, 2024
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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

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 29, 2026

I’m still not sure what the problem is, or the perceived problem. A snapshot preserves the full document at that particular history state. All the layers will be there, in that exact state.

 

To make snapshots of particular layers, as some talk about here, sounds to me like a recipe for confusion, and counter-productive to the purpose of snapshots.

Srishti Bali
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 27, 2026

Hi everyone,

 

We’ve tried to fix this issue in our latest release 27.3. Please update to Photoshop 27.3 and let us know how it goes.

For a list of additional fixes included in this release, you can also take a look at this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/desktop/whats-new/photoshop-on-desktop-release-notes.html

 

Regards,

Srishti

rickburress
Inspiring
October 6, 2025

This issue still persists in v26.11, AND in the Beta 27.0.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 30, 2025

@Wienke 

 

I don't believe so, it's just broken from the GUI, as it's still fully exposed to actions and scripting.

Known Participant
July 30, 2025

It occurs to me that Adobe may be thinking that the “merged layers” snapshot is unnecessary, that users should be using layer masks to accomplish the same thing.

Layer masks are indeed the best option for most cases, but not always when multiple layers with transparency and painted edits are involved:
If I erase too much of a working layer that already has other areas of transparency, an inverted mask made from that layer will include all of the negative space, not just what I erased. The only way I can easily distinguish the newly erased areas from the original negative spaces is to view the working layer with its erasures over the original version.
An inverted layer mask applied to the original version does not work: Option-clicking to view the mask alone presents a baffling set of interchangeable shapes. Using the backslash to see the mask ghosted is even worse, especially when multiple layers subtly interact. The best I could do is shift-click the mask to temporarily disable it, but then I’m also disabling my view of the shapes made by the erasures, not to mention that that maneuver is not as fluid as stroking with the history brush at different opacities alternating with undos.

So, message to Adobe: The “merged layers” snapshot is a core function that you should restore.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 30, 2025

Mac: Apple TextEdit (ensure that the Format menu is set to Plain Text mode, not Rich Text mode)


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

 

Known Participant
July 30, 2025

Yay, thanks Stephen!

It was an rtf with extension changed to jsx.

TextEdit no longer offers the option to save as plain text, so that seemed the only way. But prompted by your reply, I used Pages' export function to get a plain text, and now it works.

And I guess it's just as well I know how to use scripts, though I am dismayed that Adobe is letting basic functions molder.

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
July 29, 2025

Please post a screenshot of the script error. Did you save the file as RTF content instead of plain text?

Known Participant
July 29, 2025

Still unresolved, nearly a YEAR since tharrington's post. I'm now running 26.9.0, and New Snapshot offers no options, not via icon at bottom, not via flyaway menu. Click and you get a snapshot for current layer, that's it.

I tried the script above, put it in the Presets>Scripts folder, but when I try to run it, I get an error-in-line-1 message.

I hope Adobe doesn't think the low vote count means nobody cares. I've simply considered Snapshot to be useless, though I am frequently needing it.

Participant
February 5, 2025

The problem is still unresolved!