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Erasing with the tilde key

Erasing with the tilde key - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals

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Erasing with the tilde key

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you a new trick that allows you to access the eraser tool on the fly by pressing the tilde key. So notice farther down the toolbox here we have a dedicated eraser tool, which you can get by pressing the E key. And so as you can see here, I've drawn a kind of serpent using a very low flow value of 10%; and let's say I right-click with the eraser tool and I crank up its size value to 40 pixels. And, by the way, all those keyboard shortcuts that we've seen, such as pressing the right bracket key to increase the size of the cursor or the left bracket key to make it smaller, you can adjust the hardness value on the fly as well. We've got an opacity value, a flow value, and so forth. And now let's say I decide to paint inside the serpent here in order to give him these kind of stripes; and they could even be jagged stripes if you want. Anything is acceptable, but my point here is that the eraser…

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