This tool has all the power of the other lasso tools, except that it’s smart-or at least it tries to be! Click once to set a starting point, and the Magnetic Lasso tries to guess what you want to select by examining the colors of the pixels your cursor is over (you don’t even need to hold your mouse button down). The Options bar sports the same settings for both the Lasso tool and the Polygonal Lasso tool: (See Chapter 3 for more on using fill layers.) Now, you can see whether you’ve erased everything you wanted to.Īlternatively, if you’re erasing the background of one image to replace it with another, go ahead and add the new background to your document. Drag the new layer beneath the layer you’re erasing, and you’re good to go. Select a bright color from the resulting Color Picker, and then click OK. Here’s how: Click the half-black/half-white circle at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Solid Color from the menu. The next time you’re ready to use one of these eraser tools, first add a solid color fill layer, pick a bright color that contrasts with what you’re trying to delete, and then place the layer at the bottom of the layer stack. The checkerboard pattern is notorious for making it hard to see whether you’ve missed a pixel or two here and there, especially if the background you’re trying to delete is white or gray (like clouds).įortunately, it’s easy to overcome this checkered obstacle. And while it may appear that you’ve erased all the background, you may not have. Most of the time, you’ll use these tools to erase to a transparent (checkerboard) background like the one shown in Figure 4-13. Now that you know how to use the Background and Magic Erasers, keep in mind that you can’t always believe what you see onscreen. WORKAROUND WORKSHOP: Erasing Every Bit of Background
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