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Hi, I’m Marcus Smith with Smith Media Solutions. Today, I’m going to show you how use the Magic Eraser Tool in Adobe Photoshop CS2. This tool makes it really easy to change the background of your pictures.

First, after you’ve opened up Adobe Photoshop, go to file, open, and navigate to the picture you’re going to be working with. Open that up, and what we want to o here is we want to get rid of this background, this off white looking background and change it with something more appealing. We can easily do this with a regular eraser tool, just by erasing the background. As you can see, this could be very time consuming and very hard to do. We’re going to undo this.

Now Adobe Photoshop has a unique tool called the magic eraser, and it’s located in the same place as the regular eraser. To get to it, you just hold down on the eraser tool, come over here and select the magic eraser tool.

Now, what’s unique about this eraser is that with a single click, it will erase all the pixels that are of the same color or near the same color as anywhere I click.

In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again

This is part of a series of posts, you can read the rest of it by clicking on the links for the Table of Contents at the top of this post.

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