PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

To erase with the Standard Eraser:
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1. Select the Standard Eraser Tool from the Tools toolbar's Eraser Tools
flyout.
2. Choose a brush tip on the Brush Tip tab and change properties, if necessary,
on the Context toolbar.
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 the Background Eraser Tool from the Tools toolbar's Eraser Tools
flyout.
2. Choose a brush tip on the Brush Tip tab and change properties, if necessary,
on the Context toolbar.
3. Drag with the tool on the active layer to erase pixels similar to a sampled
reference colour.
• With "Contiguous" limits (the default), the tool erases only withintolerance
pixels adjacent to each other; this tends to restrict erasure to one
side of an edge or line. When you set "Discontiguous" limits, all in-range
pixels are erased. The "Edge Detected" setting can improve erasure along
one side of a contrasting edge or line.
Discontiguous Edge Detected
• With "Continual" sampling (the default), the reference colour is
repeatedly updated as you move the cursor. Sampling "Once" means
erasure is based on the colour under the crosshair when you first click.
Use the "Background Swatch" setting to use the current background
colour (Colour tab) as the reference.