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manually. You only need to indicate the approximate areas to erase (with the ERASER
TOOL) and the areas to protect (with the MASK PAINTER TOOL), and then click the ‘ERASE
BACKGROUND’ button.

1. Use the ERASER TOOL to roughly paint over the parts of the picture you want to
erase (the background).

2. Select the Mask Painter Tool and paint over some of the parts of the
foreground you want to keep.

3. Select the ERASER TOOL again and then click on ERASE BACKGROUND on the
top InfoBar.

If the foreground is all a similar color you only need to cover part of it with the mask. If the
foreground has differing colors, then paint the mask over each of the differing color
areas. Use zoom (Ctrl+mouse wheel) to mask more or less detail and try not to mask
over any background color or regions.

If you make a mistake hold Shift to un-paint the mask. If you aren't happy with the results
you can UNDO (Ctrl+Z) and change the mask, or the erased parts, and try again. In this
way you can gradually improve the result by undoing, adjusting the mask and erased
parts of the image then pressing Erase Background again. To improve the results for a
particular part of an image, make the masked and erased areas more accurately indicate
the foreground and background in that part of the image, to improve the result in that
area. There is also a handy ? button on the top InfoBar which you can click to show a
step by step guide for this feature.
This image has a white
background which you
want to remove.

Use the MASK PAINTER tool
to indicate the part of the
image to you want to
protect (pink area).
Then use the ERASER TOOL
to roughly mark the area
you want to remove (white
area).