Any way to maintain original of a resized document?

[zBernie]

if I have a document that is say 4000 pixels wide, then do a Document -> Resize Document, and change it to 2000 pizels wide, is there any way to maintain the former 4000 pixel wide document?  

I know I can save a copy of the project with the different document size, but I'm looking for a different solution.

-Thanks

 

[AlainP]

Why resize it then ?

What am I missing here ?

 

[Old Bruce]

45 minutes ago, zBernie said:

if I have a document that is say 4000 pixels wide, then do a Document -> Resize Document, and change it to 2000 pizels wide, is there any way to maintain the former 4000 pixel wide document?  

I know I can save a copy of the project with the different document size, but I'm looking for a different solution.

-Thanks

Resize your document. Select everything and copy that to the clipboard. Undo the Resize and paste the smaller version. You should probably want to have everything grouped before the the resize just so you don't wind up with loads of layers that need to be turned on or off. Also make certain Rescale is chosen and not Anchor to Page.

[thomaso]

If you want to keep both sizes within one document you could use either/or
… snapshots (one before, one after resizing).
… the option to "Save With History".
… layer copies

[zBernie]

16 minutes ago, AlainP said:

Why resize it then ?

What am I missing here ?

 

I make various adjustments such as filters which produce different results depending on the document size.

[zBernie]

10 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Resize your document. Select everything and copy that to the clipboard. Undo the Resize and paste the smaller version. You should probably want to have everything grouped before the the resize just so you don't wind up with loads of layers that need to be turned on or off. Also make certain Rescale is chosen and not Anchor to Page.

Thanks, that works nicely.