Snapshots Palette

The Snapshots palette and the controls that can be found on it are described in the table below. When controls also bring up additional dialogs, these are referenced for more information.

What It Does

The Snapshots palette displays:

a list of snapshots for the entire project or currently selected channel

buttons to take, revert, or delete channel snapshots

information about snapshots, such as name, when they were created and by what user.

Snapshots Palette Fields

Control

Type

What it does

Opens this dialog box

Notes

Channels > All

button

Displays a list of all
snapshots in the
project.

 

 

Channels > Current

button

Displays a list of
snapshots for the
currently selected
channel.

 

 

Created

info

The date and time when the snapshot was taken.

 

 

Preview

thumbnail

A thumbnail preview of the snapshot.

 

 

Name

info

The name of the
snapshot.

 

 

User

info

The name of the user that created the
snapshot.

 

 

button

Takes a new snapshot. Depending on whether Channels > All, or
Channels > Current is selected, this button behaves differently. If All is selected, a
snapshot is taken for all channels in a project. If Current is selected, a snapshot is only taken for the current channel.

Snapshot All Channels.

Snapshot Channel.

 

button

Extracts the snapshot into a new channel in the Channels palette and populates the
Layers
palette with the layers of the snapshot.

Extract
Snapshot

This option is only
available when the Channels > Current
button is
active.

button

Loads the selected
snapshot.

 

 

button

Deletes the selected snapshot.

Delete
Snapshot