Trying to erase to history but it's showing white PSD

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July 20, 2023
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I learned a trick of duplicating a layer after masking it and then merging the images together so then I can erase to history the image if it deleted something I didn't want deleted. I've been using this and bringing the photo back but recently when I hold alt+erase to bring the image back, it's showing white. It was fixed for a little while but I must've hit something on accident because now it's not working again. Please help!

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jane-e

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@Kendra304558531shj

Hi Kendra,

Without seeing your entire image including the Layers and History panels, we can only guess. The first guess is that you are on a Background layer, which does not support transparency.

The second guess is that you have a layer mask and meant to paint on it, but are painting on the image instead.

Please show a better screenshot. Thank you!

Jane

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Sorry for that. Here are more screenshots. On this image I want to bring back the transparent part to fill it in but it's just filling in with white. I tried it on another photo and it worked but sometimes it doesn't so I'm not sure why it's 50/50 on if it'll work or not.