How do i reverse an applied effect please?

[TK Trooper]

IS it possible to reverse an effect applied to a picture previously?

I received a picture that had the "glowing edges" effect added to it (like the one below), is it possible to convert the picture back to it's original state?

I know this is possible if you have a picture that has had the "negative" effect applied, if you apply the "negative" effect to that it will make the picture look like it originally did.

Any advice?

[Gamer_World14]

If you re-saved and overwrote the previous file, then there is no way to fix it... at least, I don't think so.

[ChronosRegex]

press ctrl+z

[Ash]

press ctrl+z

In the opening post it states: I received the piture.

So, ctrl Z won't do anything.

Gamer_World14 is correct, on some effects you can, on some you can not.

And this one you can not.

[oma]

you can however get a pleasing picture from it.

take picture apply adjustments sepia it will give a black background and white image.

if you then apply adjustments invert color.

you get a nice image

from this point on you can change it to black and white. or use isolate line art and get just an outline you can recolor by hand.

[Gamer_World14]

lol, but it would be cool if you could revert a file like you can in Microsoft Office.

[TK Trooper]

O.K thanks guys for the help, appreciated

[Rick Brewster]

Mathematically speaking, what you're asking for just isn't possible*.

* afaik -- at best it's computationally infeasible, in other words it'd take 1000 years to run the "backwards" filter

[DarkShock]

Mathematically speaking, what you're asking for just isn't possible*.

* afaik -- at best it's computationally infeasible, in other words it'd take 1000 years to run the "backwards" filter

That's what I was thinking. I think the only affect you can reverse is a color inversion.

[Frontcannon]

Well, you could try and reverse some light distortion effects, too..