Photoshop eraser painting problem

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
July 10, 2023
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My eraser is painting the second color instead of erasing ( In this case white but I've tried it with different colors ) I'm not sure when it started and I've not been able to find how to fix it.

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Peru Bob

Community Expert

Moved to the Photoshop forum.

Jeff Arola

Community Expert

Yes your Layer 1 has Lock Transparent Pixels enabled, so that is preventing Erasing to transparency.

(Layer 1 has a little Padlock)

Pressing the Backslash key as Glenn suggested does the same as pressing the Lock Transparent Pixels icon in the Layers panel.

Glenn 8675309

Legend

That's photoshop, this is a Photoshop elements forum.

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:

Press the forward slash- it's the one under the question mark on your keyboard. You're basically painting with your background color (That's a super simple way of 'splaining it).

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