It samples colors as you drag the tool over them and erases only those colors, leaving all other colors untouched. It can just as easily be used to erase any part of an image, and that's because the Background Eraser is really a color eraser. The Background Eraser really has nothing to do with erasing backgrounds, since Photoshop has no way of knowing what's considered the background in a photo and what isn't.
The Background Eraser Tool is especially useful with photos that contain lots of fine detail along the edges between your subject and its background, like, for example, if you want to erase the sky in an image without erasing the trees below it.īut don't let the name fool you.
In this tutorial, we’ll learn all about the Background Eraser Tool in Photoshop and how to use it to easily remove background areas of an image.
