I had PS2 a million years ago, and it automatically saved editing history. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to save and/or access the editing info in PSE 13. I can access file info, but the history block/folder is empty.
It’s been a few years since I used Elements 12. If I remember this was something that Elements just does not do. Other Ps users would say just view your history and step back (delete). I couldn’t do that...the best I could do was to create separate layers for each step of my editing and turn the eye on n off. Determine which layer I had to delete. And unlike my Ps - I could do Comand Z and go back one step at a time endlessly - Ps will only go back 1 step.
