Help, My eraser tool is painting

Mine is doing that too, but only in my latest scan of some calligraphy work I was trying to clean up. I can't make any of these options show up to fix it, but it works properly on my previous work, so I think I must have scanned it differently somehow. Anyways, I'm glad you got it fixed for you.

This happened to me too - Make sure your layer does not have the pixel lock on! Fixed the problem for me.

@Saira329494987uya, this is the Photoshop Elements forum.  You are using Photoshop.  I suggest that you post your question in the Photoshop Ecosystem Forum.

Erase tool is white erase why please problem solved adobe Photoshop 2020 

Erase tool is white erase why please problem solve

so i had this same issue on my photoshop, i use an Apple Mac Laptop, i figured out a way around it since i couldn't get a clear solution online. 'so select your eraser tool and press the alt key while you erase whatever you want to erase and thats it, Thanks For Reading 🇳🇬💙

I just had the same problem: clicked to erase, and instead a black line was painted, instead of erasing part of my layer, leaving a transparent hole where I clicked. What others suggested below (changing background colour), did not solve the issue.

Using "ctrl + z" a few times had my eraser working correctly again, which was hurting my head until I finally realized what I did: accidentally pressed "/" instead of "l", while meaning to toggle between eraser tool and for lasso tool.

VOILA! Fixed. So if your eraser tool goes from erasing to painting, try pressing forward slash "/".

Try turning off 'erase to history' .. that fixed it for me.

This happens when the layer that you are attempting to apply the eraser is not converted to smart object.

I had the same issue a few minutes ago, this is what I did to have the eraser 'erase' instead of paint:
- Right-Click on the Background Layer
- Convert to Smart Object
- Rasterize
- Erase to your heart's content.

I hope this helps.

I FIGURED IT OUT EVERYBODY!!! HALLELUJAH!

When you go to background layer and you are using your eraser, actually you are 'painting out' your  background layer mistakes in white!  So your eraser tool actually becomes like a paintbrush!  Simply make sure that BOTH your color boxes in the upper right hand corner are designated as pure white.  Then when you hit the eraser tool (which actually is acting like a paintbrush) your 'mistake lines' will be 'whited out' like if using good ol' fashioned 'white out'.

Probably what happened to you is that you, at one point, saw that there were some black lines on your background layer that you wanted to touch up, so you selected the paintbrush tool and chose the color black.  Once black was your designated color in one of your color boxes up in the righthand corner of the screen, everything from thereon in turned black including the eraser tool.

Took me HOURS to figure this out!  Such a simple fix it is mind-blowing!  Just choose white and 'erase away'.  Smile and press on!

All the best to you in your new project!

-Gloria