If you’re familiar with the Magic Wand tool (see Chapter 7), then the Magic Eraser tool is a cinch. With the Lock transparent pixels button selected, the Eraser tool erased to the default Background color (white) leaving a white area. Next, I selected the Lock transparent pixels button on the Layers palette and erased again, this time on the right side of the image. Then, on the left side of the image I erased the upper layer’s pixels to transparency, revealing the crayon layer beneath. In my example, I made sure the Lock transparent pixels button in the Layers palette wasn’t selected. The Block Eraser can be useful when you want to completely erase general areas, but you probably won’t take it up very often.įigure 14-2 shows the Eraser tool in action. The options in the Brushes palette aren’t available for the block eraser, nor are the Opacity slider bar or any of the other settings on the Options bar, except Erase to History.
The third option, Block, changes the eraser to the square, hard-edged, fixed-size eraser.
(For a refresher on changing brush size and opacity, review Chapter 12.) In addition, you can adjust the Opacity setting to partially reveal the image or, in a layered image, make pixels only partially transparent. You change the eraser’s size by changing the brush size in the Brush Preset picker. Two eraser modes Brush and Pencil, work with brushes. To switch modes, select an option from the Mode drop-down list on the Options bar shown in Figure 14-1.įigure 14-1: The Options bar offers three eraser modes: Brush, Pencil, and Block. The Eraser tool comes in three eraser modes.
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