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Erasing with the tilde key

Erasing with the tilde key - Photoshop Tutorial

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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 note as 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 it's 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 of flow value and so forth. And now let's say I decide to paint inside the serpent here in order to give them these kinds of stripes. And they could even be jagged stripes if you want, anything is acceptable. But my point here is…

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