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Eraser

The Eraser (E) takes hand edits away. It doesn't paint a color: where you drag it, the pixels you painted go, and the conversion under them shows again. Use it to undo part of your work without undoing the rest, or to bring back the converter's pixels in a spot you painted over.

Erasing

  • Both buttons erase.
  • Shift+click erases a straight line from where the last stroke ended.
  • [ and ] make the brush a size smaller or bigger.

Pixels you didn't paint don't change: on a pixel that was never edited, the Eraser does nothing.

On a picture without a source (a blank picture, or a C64 file you opened), there is no conversion under the edits: the Eraser leaves the blank picture there.

The Eraser is never stopped by the cell limits: taking an edit away is always allowed, so it has no Cells option. If the conversion's pixel doesn't fit the cell beside your other edits, the cell is outlined as a clash.

Options

The Eraser has the Pencil's brush, and shares its size with the Pencil:

  • Size: 1 to 32 pixels, square in the format's pixels (on wide pixels it has twice the lines, square on the screen).
  • Square or Round: a round brush with hard edges, for sizes 3 and up.
  • Soft: a round brush whose edge is dithered, so it erases less and less toward its edge (sizes 3 and up), with the dither of that edge in a menu beside it.
  • Mirror: erases mirrored or turned copies of each stroke as well, and you can drag the mirror's center. See Symmetry.

There's no pixel-perfect option: an eraser that left corners out would leave pixels behind.

On the sketch layer

With Sketch on (S), the Eraser clears the sketch layer instead of the picture.

Other ways to take edits away

  • Edit ▸ Revert to conversion (Shift+Del) takes the hand edits in the selection away.
  • Edit ▸ Clear all hand edits takes every edit away, in one step.
  • Hold O to see the conversion without your edits, without changing anything.