Using the Eraser Tool in Adobe Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Kyle with Expert Village. I am going to show you some tips on using photoshop. If I had a photograph where I wanted to cover up the feet, I just hit right, I hit the alternate key, grab some sand, guess what I just pulled it a foot back, so you grab this key I can just erase right over it, just like it is in the sand, so very cool, very simple tool but very cool to use, smudge tool. Let’s go to this first let’s go down the row here, the eraser tool. This of course erases. Now we do not need the eraser particularly on this particular object but on a lot of times it is useful. Let’s go back to the hand tool, let’s pick a little spot here to try out something else. Let’s say for instance on this tool, let’s say I had to cut out her hair and I wanted it just a little bit more smooth back here. What I do is I hit the smudge tool, now anytime you forget what a tool is just let the arrow rest over the tool just for a minute, your mouse arrow and it will show you. Now go back up, all the tool buttons like the paint bucket, the paint brush and the smudge tool. You can pick any of these brushes so it is almost like you are an artist and this is your canvas. 300 that is too big, let’s try 100, see there is a 100, so what I do if it is on 50% strength, see it kind of pulls it, smudges it. So this is mainly, I don’t really need it on this particular one but lets view and zoom out a little bit. "