Click, hold, and paint
away the background. Be careful not to get more than half of the eraser over your subject, or
you??™ll erase a bit of that, too. If the eraser is too large, make it smaller so you can control how
much of it covers your subject at any moment. Work in bits: click, erase a little, and release the
mouse. If you try to do the whole image in a single stroke, but you make a mistake, the Undo
button will set you back to square one and you??™ll have to do it all over from scratch. It??™s best to
work in sections to avoid having to redo your work because of a glitch.
The Background Eraser erases regions of similar color. It works best when a clearly defined
edge is between the subject and background you??™re trying to erase. If the color of the subject
and background are too similar, the tool will take bits of the subject along with the background;
so work carefully and keep an eye on what the tool is doing. After you??™re done erasing the
background, just select the image and you can use it any way you like.
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Be sure to try the Magic Eraser, which zaps away background sections with a single
click, like the Magic Wand tool would do if it were turned into an eraser.
Fine-Tune the Selection Automatically
Another solution: try the Magic Extractor.
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