How to Undo and Redo changes in Photoshop

Graphic Design looks simple but not. You have to work on tens of layers and many versions until you get what you want. In such a hectic process, mistakes are inevitable. You may accidentally delete or alter a change.

Adobe Photoshop has options to undo or redo the changes or accidental mistakes. You can do the using keyboard or history panel. This guide will help you understand and learn Photoshop’s undo and redo features.

There are a few ways to undo or redo changes in Photoshop:

Using the options in Menu Bar
Using keyboard shortcuts
Using the history panel

Let’s see the methods in detail.

How to Undo changes in Photoshop

If you accidentally made a mistake and want to undo it, click on Edit in the menu bar. You will see Undo followed by whatever the change that happened last in the design. Click on it. It will undo the change.

You can repeat the process to undo other changes as many times as you wish.

To speed up your designing process, you can use the Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut to undo. The shortcut does exactly the same and you can use it as many times as you wish to undo changes.

Read: How to put a Frame around Photo in Photoshop.

How to Redo changes in Photoshop

If you want to redo a change in Photoshop, click on Edit in the menu and select Redo which usually is added with the latest change that happened in the design.

Like undo, you can redo the design many times to get the changes back. Alternatively, you can also use Shift+Ctrl+Z as a keyboard shortcut to redo. This helps you cut time in going to the menu each time.

Read: How to open RAW image in Adobe Photoshop.

Undo/Redo changes using History Panel

This is one of the best ways to undo or redo a design if you made many changes and want to undo one change that happened in the middle. You can pick a change from the history panel and undo it.

To see the history panel, click on Window in the menu bar and select History.

You will see a panel added to the right-side panel.

Now, to undo a change in the design, select the change that happened before the change you want to undo.

For example, in the image below, I want to undo the Brush tool. To undo, the brush tool, I have to select Rasterize layer from the history panel.

To redo using the history panel, you have to select the change that you want to redo.

For example, in the image below, I want to redo the Move change. To redo it, I have to select Move from the history.

Sometimes, the change you want to redo might not be available next to the current change. If you redo that change, you might many unwanted changes that happened between. Deleting the changes you no longer want from the history panel is the only solution in such cases.