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Tip #14: Background Eraser Tool
By: Donna Chapman (Photoshop CS2)Ever take a beautiful picture of an object and the background just did
not work? Then when you try to erase the background all you get is
your default background color. What a pain.
This really is a quick fix. After opening your image select the background
eraser tool from the tool pallet.
When this comes up it will look the same as the eraser tool except that
there is a small cross hair in the center. On the top of your screen you
will see a box that says tolerance. Adjust the tolerance fairly small.
Then, starting with the cross hairs on your background overlap your
main image with the circle “click, move, click” around the outer edge
of your image. If it starts to erase your main image then you will need
a smaller tolerance lever, you may wish to experiment.
This will automatically make the background transparent. When you have
completed the edges around the entire object, you may use a regular eraser
in a much larger size for the rest of the background. You may now save this
for use as a GIF (to use on a website) or if you keep it as a JPEG you can
now easily combine this with other images (like clouds for example.)
Photoshop Tip #14: Donna Chapman donnaichapman@yahoo.com
