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McGyver
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I have no idea if this is possible, but many times when I'm messing about with the various sliders while in settings, I'll arrive at an almost perfect look... But then I go one step too far and mess up something terribly... Now there is no going back, not if I've made a lot of changes.
Often I keep scrap paper with me and write down most of the settings, or if I'm on my Mac, I take a screenshot, but still it's awkward.
I'm assuming there must be some reason that there is no undo in settings, but on the off chance nobody has thought of this... This would make my life soooo much easier... You should try and read my handwriting, then you would understand. Literally, there is a note on my desk that appears to have the slider settings for "pistachio" and "salami" and perhaps something about "keep the Kangaroos around 2013"... I hope it's a Filter Forge note, or else our kangaroos expired three years ago. Whatever... But, seriously if this is implementable, I think it would be great... Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and if it's not doable, taking the time to not call me at a nitwit.
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SpaceRay
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i agree with you and would be good and very useful and helpful to have a undo or history of the steps taken, but I do not think that it may be added until, and even if it may be added is for next year at least. So I suggest an alternative

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But then I go one step too far and mess up something terribly... Now there is no going back, not if I've made a lot of changes.
Often I keep scrap paper with me and write down most of the settings, or if I'm on my Mac, I take a screenshot, but still it's awkward.


Hi, I know well what you mean as it has happened to me also, and I also was taking notes of the settings making screenshots, but then I thought that as there is no undo, I could add a preset with those beautiful and well done settings, and then after and can make mistakes and make it horrible, and it does not matter because I have already saved the preset with the perfect settings, and I can go back to it whenever I want, Nad I can make other more presets derived fr om this one and make more tests

so my advice is that when you have got something that you like much, make a preset, so then all those settings are saved and kept secure, and you can modify the setting and go really wrong, and then you can go back to your beautiful perfect saved settings

maybe an alternative to a undo or history, you could make a preset for each correct step that you take, so you can go back to the point wh ere you may want, writing in a paper the corresponding presets

So this way you would not loose any awesome design you may have made and can mess it up and go terribly wrong, go back to preset and is back shiny and beautiful again
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McGyver
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Yes, the preset idea is a good one... Unfortunately (at least for me) I eventually lose track of the presets and suffer a complete brain meltdown. A grown man crying "which one was that one I liked" and hugging his keyboard is a sad sight... Maybe a little funny, but mostly sad.
I think at one point on a filter I was tweaking, I had around twelve presets... I thought I was being slick by changing the colors... But after a while even color becomes meaningless... Stupid nature... Only having seven basic colors... But yes, presets are definitely a good way to hold onto the settings until (hopefully in the next version?) we might get an undo. smile:)
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