The brush will erase the area in the shape of the brush i.e. Now paint the canvas with this eraser brush. Go to Option bar and select ‘maple tree brush’ as shown below. Eraser Tool example:2 - Erase a Selection with different shape brush Also due to a selection on the layer, only inside pixels are deleted.įinally, after deleting all the pixels, we have the below image. Let’s paint the canvas with eraser tool with below option bar settings.Īs we can see below that the pixels from current layer is deleted to expose the pixels of underlying layer. It means that the eraser tool will appear as a brush on the canvas but instead of painting an area, it will remove the pixels from those areas. In Eraser option bar, the Eraser Mode is selected as Brush. If we have a selection on the canvas then the Eraser Tool will erase the pixels only inside the selection, not outside of the Selection. Now make a circular selection on the canvas using Elliptical marquee tool. We have a Lower background layer of pink color as shown below. Open below image in Photoshop application. Let’s demonstrate the standard Eraser tool. There are 3 variation of Eraser tool as shown below: Eraser Tool example:1 - Erase a Selection on the canvas If the underlying layer is a transparent background, then transparency is exposed and if the underlying layer is some background color then that color is exposed by erasing the pixel from current layer. Eraser Tool in Photoshop is used to remove the pixels around an area and hence exposing the layer beneath it.

Background eraser tool photoshop