Working with original image file...

I'm retouching some images and would like to preserve the original file while doing so, instead of saving multiple drafts of the image in progress in case I need to go back and change something. Is there a way to use layers or vector masks to do this? The history panel can only go back so far..

I like to take a snapshot (in History flyout menu) every so often so if I want to go back further than history allows I can click on a snaphot and there I am.
Also use snaphot if I am not sure my next technique will be better or worse.

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So, first time in CS 6 from the Cloud, and I broke it.
Perhaps the trial version does not have memory management in place yet.

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For video editing (I am a film festival and Bravo Channel competition winning, once upon a wayback time, Academy Award Nominated filmmaker,) although I am an Adobe Master Suite user, I use Final Cut, 7 and now, mostly X, and occassionally Avid. Essentially, nobody uses Adobe Premiere in the professional editing world. As it extensively uses OpenCL, Final Cut X, which has finally grown up after many iterations and upgrades and amazing third party support, runs happily in 8GB for up to feature length 1080p HD projects, of which I have cut a few on this box without performance issues. Final Cut X is about 250-1500% faster than Final Cut 7 for most things, as GPU rendering is really fast, even offering near online (near-line) review of unrendered things in real time. Small, 2-3 day projects in Final Cut 7 are under 1 day in Final Cut X. It's a monstrous difference, and it scales across larger productions. In 3D, I have been a go-to guy to fix S3D discrete 2 eye view stuff, as just about no one shoots it properly such that now, most just convert 2D. I do all of that on this lowly box.
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simonjacobson wrote:
Drag clip over target, green plus sign appears.........clip appears at front of video, no menu option appears,
OK that sounds correct. Just to clarify, when the sign appears, as you release the mouse button (or whatever you are using), no menu pops up but the clip immediately positions itself:
at the front of the target clip, OR
at the very beginning of your project
Not sure where I'm heading here, just trying to get the complete picture.
I di it once, but not again, do i need to double click/right click or something?
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Hi Everyone....Please Help Me!
I am regularly required to work with old pdf files for my company, which I have to open in Illustrator to amend and update (we don't have access to the original .ai files).
Whenever I start to work on these files I have to spend ages just unconnecting the elements of the artwork, usually by right clicking and choosing "release clipping mask"
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Tá mo chroi bhríste
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Always keeping a careful eye on the effects of released clipping masks, the process can be accelerated using the keyboard shortcuts rather than hunt-and-click.
Open the PDF.
Ctrl/Cmd+A (Select All)
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Lrak wrote: "It sounds like I should to that before endeavoring to transfer the manuscript?" (re-link)
It should be much easier to re-link in the Pagemaker file, as, with any luck, you can get the filenames from the Graphics Manager. After conversion to InDesign, any out-of-date linked images get their names converted to something like "image 123.jpg", and are themselves converted to an embedded low res representation of the image. Even vectored art. Pretty hard to figure them out, unless you are VERY familiar with the file, which you may be.
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Raw files from the new Nikon D810 will not open with either Photoshop CS5.1 or Lightroom 4. When will a real Adobe solution be available to work with Raw (NEF) files in their native format, using CS5.1 and LR4?

Raw files from the new Nikon D810 will not open with either Photoshop CS5.1 or Lightroom 4. When will a real Adobe solution be available to work with Raw (NEF) files in their native format, using CS5.1 and LR4?

Clarification: this is a user forum; you are not addressing Adobe here.
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I'm in trouble: I have a big csv file (over 5gb of web-analytics data) and my 64 bit excel (and 6gb ram)
I cant load file to data model because of it's size. There is an error "out of memory" in power query.
This is the first time when I encountered such a problem.
What options do I have to work with such a file? To increase memory in my computer? Would it solve the problem? How much do I need to work with 6gb csv?
Or may be I can upload my data somewhere to azure and work with it there?
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Hi Miguel!
Thanks for your answer.
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For the last 2 days whenever I try to upload photos from my iPhoto page to facebook I get an error message: Bad Image There was a problem with the image file. I haven't knowingly changed any settings on iPhoto or facebook. Can anyone help, please ?

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I need to work with the RAW files on a SONY RX100III. I use Photoshop CS5 and a Mac operating system OSX 10.6.

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So I am working with an image sequence in my timeline and every time I touch that clip (either to render it or move it) Premiere crashes.
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Process:               Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 [839]
Path:                  /Applications/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.app/Contents/MacOS/Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014
Identifier:            com.adobe.AdobePremierePro
Version:               8.2.0 (8.2.0)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014 [839]
User ID:               501
Date/Time:             2015-04-18 16:36:11.311 -0700
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.10.3 (14D136)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        06821F38-EC27-D4F0-775A-7CB2D2257EE6
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Exception Type:        EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
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