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How To Remove Backgrounds With Photoshop

Selecting The Background Eraser Tool

By default, the Background Eraser is hiding behind Photoshop's regular Eraser Tool in the Tools panel.

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To select it, right-click (Win) / Control-click (Mac) on the Eraser Tool, and then choose the Background Eraser Tool from the fly-out menu that appears:

The Background Eraser Tool is found nested under the regular Eraser Tool in the Tools panel.

With the Background Eraser selected, your mouse cursor will change into a circle with a small crosshair in the center of it:

The Background Eraser's cursor is made up of a simple circle with a crosshair in the middle.

Adjusting The Size Of The Brush

The Background Eraser Tool is really a brush, and just like Photoshop’s other Brush tools, you can adjust its size directly from your keyboard.

Press the left bracket key ( [ ) repeatedly to make it smaller or the right bracket key ( ] ) to make it larger. You can also adjust the hardness of the edges by adding the Shift key.

Press Shift+l