I don't know if it asked me something different this time in the saving process?? But I literally didn't go out of my way to save it as a merged project.
It wouldn't let me undo the issue in Photoshop, the History completely went away and only had my merged doc.
I 'saved as .pdf' then saved the document as a '.psd' to I can come back and work on it, but it merged all layers to one picture.
I spent countless hours on this project and really hope there is a solution to this issue.
I do not think there is If you could not of back up in history and the document has been flattened. Is the PDF Saved a multi page PDF. Pages open as separate document. I do not save PDF using Photoshop years ago I did save a PDF Presentation. Using multiple open documents I believe.
This solved the question, for reason I thought my history would be there when I opened! I'm not sure WHY! Operator ERROR! Thank you all for your replies!
I'd be interested in what Photoshop version this happened with? I certainly used to be a problem, and I am ashamed to say that it got me twice several years ago, but I has not happened recently, and I don't think I have changed my workflow.
Anyway... If you uncheck 'keep layers' (or something like that), when exporting to PDF, it will save a flattened PSD unless you recheck that setting. But like I say... I have a feeling that they have fixed that nasty little gotcha with recent updates.
Interesting, I never noticed this in earlier versions then just upgraded to 2021 last week and discovered this the hard way. What's odd is that the individual layers are still there after saving the merged pdf and when I hit "save as psd", but then if I close and reopen, the layers are merged 😕
It suspect you destroyed your Layers by not saving the pdf with »Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities« checked.
Unless you have back-ups that would appear to be that …
I don't know if it asked me something different this time in the saving process?? But I literally didn't go out of my way to save it as a merged project.
Did you close the file after saving as a pdf?
In Photoshop saving a pdf should be done »As a Copy« in my opinion and the layered file saved as psd, psb or tif.
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