I spend a great deal of time working with creative techniques to enhance pictures or convert them into one of my “Artistic Expressions”. This is sometimes referred to as playing with pictures, which is the term I prefer to call it since I generally do this during my free time. Whether you are testing out a new technique, working with a picture or playing; often we get to a point where we determine the results are not what we want. We take a deep breath, sigh, and decide to start over.
 
One method of starting over is clicking in the history pallet either to a point that was previously saved or at the very top where the picture was first opened. A quick and fun way to go back to the very beginning is to hit the F12 key. That will “revert” the picture back to its original state. You can find the revert command in the file menu. Using the F12 key will add this step to the history instead of erasing it, which can be an advantage in some situations.
 
Wouldn’t it be nice if life had an F12 key.
 
      Dale