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Here's my biggest pet peeve about Photoshop:
I'm currently working on Layer A. I select Layer B in the layer palette, then select the move tool (v). I move the layer in XY (not layer order). I release the mouse. I don't like where I put it, so I hit Undo. (Or step backward in the history)
Photoshop resets Layer B's position, but then it also reselects Layer A! No, stay with Layer B! I just want to move it again! This is especially annoying when I have 100+ layers and Layer A is at the top and Layer B is down at the bottom of the stack. I have to scrollscrollscroll to get back down to Layer B.
Is there any way to "fix" this? Shouldn't the History Palette record what a layer selection as an step? To me, it seems Undo is really taking TWO steps back (reset layer XY position and reselect previously selected layer).
Actually, we do that all the time (sitting for a while with professionals and watching them work).
Also, most of our developers are serious Photoshop users (photographers, painters, illustrators, etc.).
Photoshop isn't developed in a vacuum.
And what you are describing is not a bug -- just something that some people understand and some people don't about how history and undos work.
As far as I know, it has been there for as long as history and undo have existed in Photoshop.
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The comment was a guy who apparently works for Adobe giving a totally unacceptable totally idiotic response to a totally valid question. And it had a green checkmark next to it saying "CORRECT ANSWER". Just couldn't help myself. Yes I saw that its a very old post. Note that I said it needs to be fixed if it hasn't already. Questions?
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Has this issue been fixed? I mean does photoshop offer undos using the nonlinear history and different ranges of undo as well? One for going to a previous major step in history and one for reversing the previous action.