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The Photoshop Eraser: Fix Your Mistakes!The next thing in the list that we should know about is the Photoshop eraser tool once you understand the Photoshop brush tool.For starters, when you paint 2d digital art, there’s no way that you will create a masterpiece all in one go. You will make mistakes! When that happens, you need a tool to help you erase them. In any graphics program, there is an eraser tool. The Photoshop eraser tool is located two blocks diagonal from the brush tool. 1. Finding the eraser tool
As soon as you click on the Photoshop eraser tool icon, it pops up a menu with three different types of erasers. The eraser tool is what you want as it is the basic eraser that you will be using throughout your painting. The background eraser tool acts just like the normal eraser tool except that it replaces the color on the second swab with the colors it goes over. For example, if you look at the two swab colors, I have blue and white in the toolbox. When I use the background eraser, the white will be replaced by the color that I just erased! The Photoshop magic eraser tool is fairly unpredictable in that it erases similar colors. You can set the options to erase a range of the similar color. But it can’t be controlled as to what you want to erase. It is only good if you need a mass erase of the same color. 2. Knowing the modes of the eraser toolWhen you click on the eraser, there are three methods for erasing.
The brush is the one you want as it simulates the pressure sensitivity of a real-life eraser. You can set the brush mode to any type of eraser head, size, pressure, and even style. That is, you take control of how you need to erase! On the other hand, the pencil eraser isn’t exactly how you’d think it’ll work. It erases with the exact shape of the pencil eraser area. In other words, either that pixel that fits in the area gets erased with the same prejudice as all the other pixels, or it does not. You can also control the size and type of this eraser. The difference between this and the normal brush is that the normal brush allows you to control both the opacity and the flow. The pencil brush only allows you to control opacity. Use it only for a quick erase! Similarly, the block eraser functions just like the pencil eraser except that it’s one big block! It doesn’t give you a lot of options to play with. You can’t even set the opacity or the flow! Personally, I don’t use this tool at all as I find no need for it. 3. Getting to the root of error correction!You may think that the eraser option is the best way to correct mistakes. However, this is where you find out that the Photoshop eraser tool is not the best.What if you can undo the mistake altogether? Obviously, you can undo any previous steps in the program by hitting the undo function. However, this only works for a few steps. What if you can control how far you can erase? Well, you can with the history box!
This box is the ultimate error corrector. You can go to any steps that have been done on the painting. It will automatically populate up to 20 saved states for you to recover from. You can even take snapshots of the picture just incase you want to return to a previous step that’s been over written by the 20 saved states! And if you feel everything is wrong, clicking the very first step will set the painting to when you last opened it! This box is irreplaceable as it is a tool that you will be using frequently in conjunction with the brush tool. So why would you need to use the eraser to correct then? Well, you can use the Photoshop eraser tool to create atmosphere! Just set the eraser brush to a large size and set the pressure to below 25%. What you can do is ‘paint’ over your background with the eraser to create depth! Why? Simply speaking, the farther the object is from you, the lighter it gets. This is because there is more air between you and the object. Thus, the farther the distance, the more air is between you and the object, and therefore, the lighter and blurrier the object will appear to be. This is why the Photoshop eraser tool is definitely more than meets the eye! Its name suggests one use, but you can manipulate the tool for an infinite number of uses. It all depends on you and what you’re painting. Remember, keep motivated! Spend a few minutes to get used to all the options that are available and you can’t go wrong!
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