PhotoPlus X6 User Guide - Serif

132 Painting, Drawing, and Text
To erase with the Standard Eraser:
1. Select Standard Eraser from the Tools toolbar's Eraser Tools
flyout.
2. (Optional) Change attributes, especially brush Size and Opacity, on the
context toolbar.
For erasing with an airbrush effect or hard-edged brush, check the
Airbrush or Hard Edge option.
For tablet users, pressure sensitivity can be switched on via Brush Options
(click Brush thumbnail); ensure the Controller drop-down list is set to
"Pressure" on selected attributes.
3. Drag with the tool on the active layer. On the Background layer, erased
pixels expose the current background colour. On other layers, they expose
transparency.
To erase with the Background Eraser:
1. Select Background Eraser from the Tools toolbar's Eraser Tools
flyout.
2. (Optional) Change properties on the context toolbar:
• For tablet users, pressure sensitivity can be switched on via Brush
Options (click Brush thumbnail); ensure the Controller dropdown
list is set to "Pressure" on selected attributes.
• The Tolerance setting determines the breadth of the colour range
to be erased.
• With "Contiguous" limits (the default), the tool erases only
within-tolerance pixels adjacent to each other and within the
brushes width; this tends to restrict erasure to one side of an edge
or line. When you set "Discontiguous" limits, all matching pixels
are erased under the brush even if they are non-adjacent (great
for removing uniform background like sky). The "Edge Detected"
setting can improve erasure along one side of a contrasting edge
or line.