Eraser Photo
Harold Yengo
Paint over the unwanted objects of your image and let Photoroom work its magic. Once you selected the object with the brush tool, it is automatically removed from the photo as if it was never there. Use it to erase any unwanted content, such as people, small objects, watermarks or text.
For example, when using images for various purposes like advertisements, presentations, or publications, it may be necessary to remove copyrighted watermarks, text overlays, or logos to comply with legal requirements or maintain a consistent visual theme.
Signing up to Photoroom is for free, and you are able to remove any object or person from your image for free. If you want to use other great features from Photoroom such as the AI Background Generator or want to delete the Photoroom watermark - then it is useful to become a Pro User.
One objective could be to enhance your visual aesthetics. Sometimes, certain objects or people in an image can distract from the main subject or overall composition. By removing them, you can create a cleaner and more visually pleasing image. The second use case to cleaning up a picture is photo retouching: In portrait photography, removing imperfections or distractions like blemishes, wrinkles, or stray hairs can help enhance the subject's appearance and create a more polished image. The last one to mention, is the object isolation: If you want to isolate a specific object or subject in an image, removing other elements can help draw attention solely to the intended focal point. This can be particularly useful in product photography or creating visual graphics.
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Hi @Ian Chamberlain,
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Make sure the Opacity and Flow of the brush are not set to 0% in the context toolbar. The brush you have selected may also interfere here - make sure you pick a brush from the Basic category.
Assuming you already have tried to pick a brush from the Basic category, go to the Channels panel and check if the channels are all editable (all icons on the right should by white, not greyed out) - or simply click the round arrow on the top right of the Channels panel to reset them.
Are you confusing the Eraser Brush Tool with the Inpainting Brush Tool? What video tutorial were you following? Seems you were trying to remove the hose from the image and expecting the program to fill/replace the left area with grass perhaps? Try the Inpainting Brush Tool as shown below in the screenshot with the original image. Paint over the hose to remove that "element" from the image as if it wasn't there when you took the photo. That's proprably what you want to do.
The Erase Tool does what its name suggests, which is to erase (remove) pixels from a pixel layer. If there is nothing below that layer & the document is set to have a transparent background (not the same thing as a layer named "Background") then you get the checkerboard pattern, which is the standard way of showing where there is transparency in the document.
I have the same problem. It is such a rudimentary concept that I can grasp in Photoshop, Gimp, MS Paint. Every other program works just fine. Even if I rasterize a layer the erase tool does not erase anything (standard brush, "Erase Brush Tool", editable channel, etc.). I've found that Affinity seems to tremendously overcomplicate every aspect of working with any of its tools. Not very happy.
Unfortunately I'm not seeing this behaviour here. Across multiple documents - some being created from scratch, others opening an image file (JPEG, PNG etc) directly and then using the Eraser tool works as expected for me.
Do note that depending on your Affinity app settings, the Eraser Tool may not use the same settings across all of your documents, and can also obtain specific Brush settings from the Paint Brush Tool - so even without manually changing your Eraser Tool settings, you might find that they are different across documents, causing the issue you're reporting.
I am experiencing the same type of problem with my eraser brush tool. In other words it acts like the paint brush tool. See the screenshot below. The squiggly lines are the result of dragging the eraser tool over the image. How will I ever fine-tune selections if I can't erase?
I want to be able to edit selections with Quick Mask the way I did in Photoshop. In other words, create a selection, go into Quick Mask to modify the selection with the paint and erase tools, then exit QM. Is there something else I need to do in Affinity to achieve the same result?
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Photo Eraser is a powerful photo editing tool that allows you to easily remove unwanted objects, people, or blemishes from your photos. In addition to these features, it also offers an enhancer tool to improve the quality of your images and a background remover tool to replace or remove the background in your photos.
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I am trying to make a sprite using pixel art. However, it is very difficult to erase one pixel only as eraser damages pixels around and it takes multiple strokes to erase pixel. This leads to surrounding pixels having lighter colors when they shouldn't and I find myself frustrated redoing my work over and over again every time when I screw up. Is there a way to paint nothing? I know that you can pain over a bad pixel with white for example to fix a mistake however in this case pixel has to be empty and I can't seem to be able to find a way to do that. Thanks for your time. Any suggestions could help!
Hello, pixel artist here, too. I've created one "New square brush" from the tiny icon in the right panel of the brushes, making it 1 pixel size, no spacing, full opacity flow and all...but yep, it's still not a hard pixel. Wanted to use it to associate it to the eraser. IMO, yep, do it old style. You can use the flood selector (or flood erase) later on to select in one go all pixels of the color of choice as background. Just set the wand to 0 tolerance, and contiguous or not depending on each case.You can do that just once, at the end when preparing the sprite to export !
Old sprite painters did work like this (deleting with background color). Actually, it was often done against a horrid full magenta quite disgusting to draw against it -kindda the chroma of the pixel artist back then-
Just made a test now, as got curious, and well, seems quite workable if done as mentioned. Not sure if the top bar options of "foce pixel alignment" and "move by whole pixels" are beneficial or not (edit: yes it is)...Alt LMB drag to select color works pretty well at this res, and also being so zoomed in, I don't see the trembling while drawing, so, funnily enough, pixel art is the only work I'd do in the painting area until the brush engine rewrite :)
With lasso select, aliasing off for hard edges, and shift you can make shapes formed by straight lines. Then shift + f5 to fill with a color. Pen tool (which alows you to do vertical and 45 lines) wont work, as once you hit the convert to selection, no option to disable the smoothing, the aliasing. A pitty, as the many premade vector shapes would allow to work faster.
Anyway, you can pixel push with whatever the utility, but what AP does, not found in most free or non expensive software (in high end stuff for print, etc) . So I prefer it so, as pixel art can be dealt as is, very well.
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