PhotoPlus X6 User Guide - Serif

Erasing
Painting, Drawing, and Text 131
Sometimes the rubber end of the pencil can be just as important to an artist as
the pointed one. The Eraser Tools flyout on the Tools toolbar provides ways of
enhancing an image by "painting" with transparency rather than with colour.
Use the Standard Eraser for replacing
colours in an image either with the background
colour or with transparency (on Background or
other standard layers, respectively).
Use the Background Eraser for erasing
pixels similar to a sampled reference colour
underlying the cursor crosshair—great for
painting out unwanted background colours.
Use the Flood Eraser for filling a region
with transparency, erasing pixels similar to the
colour under the cursor when you first click.
In general, you can set tool properties for each tool including brush
characteristics, opacity, tolerance, flow, and choose a brush tip. The Eraser tools
work on Background and standard layers, but not on text layers or shape layers.