Help with text on Photoshop CS3

[CajunKim]

Okay here is my problem. Okay I took these senior pictures of this guy and I cleared up everything and put his name in the corner. Well I saved them and now I want to bring them back up and either remove the name in the corner or move it around but I can't get back to the text layer. It is just one layer now. How do I separate them again to have the text layer again so I can adjust it. Thanks so much for the help.

Kim
(Who will be glad when graduation is OVER!)
I'm stressed

[Richard]

Okay here is my problem. Okay I took these senior pictures of this guy and I cleared up everything and put his name in the corner. Well I saved them and now I want to bring them back up and either remove the name in the corner or move it around but I can't get back to the text layer. It is just one layer now. How do I separate them again to have the text layer again so I can adjust it. Thanks so much for the help.

Kim
(Who will be glad when graduation is OVER!)
I'm stressed

Hi Kim,

I hate to add to your stress, but unless you saved a copy of the .PSD file before you flattened, then I'm afraid you'll have to start over. Once you flatten the layers and close the file in Photoshop the separate layers are gone forever. Without seeing the image, it's impossible to say, but perhaps you could clone out the text somehow, and preserve the other work you did on the image. :dunno

Sorry.

[Sam]

I suspect you saved as a jpg file. A jpg file format will not support layers so all layers were automatically merged when saved. No going back.

Sam

[SloYerRoll]

Okay here is my problem. Okay I took these senior pictures of this guy and I cleared up everything and put his name in the corner. Well I saved them and now I want to bring them back up and either remove the name in the corner or move it around but I can't get back to the text layer. It is just one layer now. How do I separate them again to have the text layer again so I can adjust it. Thanks so much for the help.

Kim
(Who will be glad when graduation is OVER!)
I'm stressedThe other posters are 100% correct.. but there's a chance you can save your work and sanity.

Depending on how large the signature is and how busy that corner is. You can probably get away w/ creating a droplet (http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/10.0/help.html?content=WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031a b64-7420.html) for 95% of your shots, then going in and manually correcting the ones that give you trouble.

[CajunKim]

Thanks so much for the help. No I didn't save a copy before I added the text (which I should have done but now I learned my lesson). So I am starting over with some of them. Thanks again.

Kim