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Eraser tool

Eraser tool - Photoshop Tutorial

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Eraser tool

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- [Instructor] One tool that I have completely neglected up to this point is the eraser tool. We find it here on the tool bar. When we are painting on a single background layer, the eraser is of no use for us. On a background we can erase a brush stroke by simply painting over it. But with layers we have introduced transparency to our digital canvas and if we need to restore transparency at any point, we can use the eraser to do that. So for example, in our hills here if I want to refine the edge of the hills I can use the eraser to refine the contour here and by that I effectively restore the transparency of the layer. The only thing that I have to make sure is that the transparency is not locked on my layer because if it is locked my eraser will erase to the background color that is currently chosen. So let's undo this, turn off the lock transparency. Let's do some final adjustments. As we can see on a transparent layer the eraser is the counterpart to our brush tool.

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