Elements10 undo for resizing

I screwed up and edited some pics and then saved them. I did not make a copy of the originals
I need to take a pic that I resized and take it back to the original and delete the watermark
When I Google Elements undo or resizing and read about it I'm not having any success
I open Elements
Go to "Edit"
Then ,file>open>find the file I want and open it
The pic is now displayed
According to Google
I go to "Window"
Then click on "undo history"
I do not see the last 15 steps that it says I'm supposed to see
Need some help or advice on this
Thanks

Sorry to say that once you close the program the history is gone. You can try resizing up, but I'm sure it will result in a softer image.

Without the original file, those pixels are lost forever...

I assume your starting with a JPEG file. If so just do a save as and save it as TIFF thats the file you
work with and your original is safe and sound.

Furlan wrote in post #16097032
I assume your starting with a JPEG file. If so just do a save as and save it as TIFF thats the file you
work with and your original is safe and sound.

I know what I did wrong
My question is how do I undo it ?

Ontario55 wrote in post #16097263
I know what I did wrong
My question is how do I undo it ?

That would depend on if your work sequence includes making a second copy of all files you read out of the camera.

Ontario55 wrote in post #16097263
I know what I did wrong
My question is how do I undo it ?

You don't unless you have your original files, a backup or other type of copy you can restore from.

Otherwise, you've saved over your originals and they are gone, unfortunately.

The only thing you can do is to upsize the small image, which will probably create a lot of artifacts. How small is small? The best method for uprezzing it would be to use Perfect Resize (free trial?). Second choice Photo Zoom. Third choice, if your PSE has both Bicubic Smoother and Bicubic Sharper is to do the following: Enlarge to 10% more than needed with Bicubic Smoother, sharpen, reduce to target size with Bicubic Sharper.

tzalman wrote in post #16098045
... Third choice, if your PSE has both Bicubic Smoother and Bicubic Sharper is to do the following: Enlarge to 10% more than needed with Bicubic Smoother, sharpen, reduce to target size with Bicubic Sharper.

This works pretty well and would be worth a try. Here are two 100% crops, the first from an image exported from Lightroom at full size (4912x3964 pixels) and the second that was exported at 1000x664 pixels, then upsized to 5500 pixels on the long side, then reduced to 4912 pixels using Elie's guidance. The difference is certainly noticeable at this zoom level, but might be tolerable at a lower magnification. Note that the "enlarged_reduced" version was exported at quality 8, but I had to use quality 5 on the "original" to meet POTN file size requirements.

This was just a quick test (I was curious about the method) -- a more carefully controlled test that eliminated possible variables associated with Lightroom's sharpening and with images of varying complexity might be useful.

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I always change the name of the edited file. That way the original is unaltered and you always have it.

As has been said, what you have done is done and the edited file is all you have. You might try a recovery utility to see if you can recover the original file from your card.

I have used Card Recovery for a corrupted SD card and was able to get the images from it. Might give it a go.

http://www.cardrecover​y.com/

saea501 wrote in post #16098347
As has been said, what you have done is done and the edited file is all you have. You might try a recovery utility to see if you can recover the original file from your card.

^^^ This.