How to Use the Eraser Tool | Adobe Illustrator

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This is how you work with the Eraser Tool in Adobe Illustrator.

So, we're going to go to our handy dandy rectangle, and click and drag this out.

We can change the fill color if we want. I'm going to change it to a red. All right.

Now, sometimes we want to delete portions of a fill, or a stroke, whatever the case may be. And just like when you're drawing something on a piece of paper, a lot of the times you use the eraser if you either have a mistake or you want to edit something. So that's basically your saving grace.

So here, in Illustrator, we're going to go to our Panel, Tools Panel, and we'll go about halfway down and you'll notice the Eraser Tool.

And if you click that, and you click on your board, you'll notice that as soon as you start to hit your shape, it will start to break your shape apart, even to the point that it will split it if you go from one end point to another.

As soon as you let go, now you have 2 different shapes. Now, you have the left side and your right side as a shape.

And you can also, select your Eraser Tool again, you can click and go over the shape again and now you have 4 shapes.

Now, another trick, if you don't want to erase other items is, you select the item that you want the Eraser Tool to work on, and if you were to click, its going to edit through this item but you'll notice as you're about to let it go, it won't actually affect any of the other items. It will only affect the selected item.

So no matter how wild and crazy you go over this, it will over edit the portion that's selected.

And that's how you work with the Eraser Tool in Adobe Illustrator.

[MicaelaSkyy]

This didn't help me at all. When I erase it leaves a black line. Can someone help me change it back to it's original settings please? :(

[jimmywatts]

when I erase something. it creates an outline where I erased

[johnTaylor]

Thanks for teaching me how to left click

[asetzek]

my erase tool wont allow me to erase! how do I fix that?

[GenghisDng]

Whenever I erase something it jumps back second I lift my finger off my mouse button.

[speedwizedits]

when i erase something, the moment i let go of left click it goes back.

[tinabeana]

My eraser tool is drawing lines instead of erasing them @___@

[ThelegalSWAG]

GUYS THIS HELPED ME!!!

Select the shape you are trying to use the eraser tool on then click isolation mode and you can free form erase from there and when done you can disable isolation mode.

[Haildawn]

Doesnt work just creates a green outline and goes straight back to normal. How do you fix that

[stevenmerritt]

This just moves the lines around that I am trying to erase. I'm not expecting a response from the publisher of this video after 8 years but he couldn't be bothered to reply to the people having problems when he had just produced it. He's just somebody just after the revenue and not caring about the people he thinks he's helping.

[tada]

to much talking
just get to the point.

[TheWrighty]

my erase tool using my wacom pen or the mouse keeps changing the thickness of the lines around the thing i am trying to erase anyone have the same problem and how do i fix it ?? help 

[zionmiguel]

How do you make the eraser a block erase like in photoshop. I don't want the circle shape eraser.

[stevelong]

Ok great what about a raster image? cause i cant seem to erase those.

[take]

As opposed to using the Eraser Tool to split apart an automatically "closed shape" in Adobe Illustrator, the "Eraser Tool" can also cleanly erase any segment of a Line, anywhere along a line as explained below:

1.) The Eraser Tool will NOT cleanly erase segments of lines of "closed shapes" drawn using the Rectangle Tool, Ellipse tool, Polygon Tool, Star Tool, Rectangular Grid Tool and the Polar Grid Tool, as they each automatically draw “closed shapes".

2.) The Eraser Tool will ONLY cleanly erase any segment of a line, anywhere along the line, that was drawn using the Line Segment Tool, Arc Tool or the Spiral Tool.

3.) The Eraser Tool will ALSO cleanly erase any segment along any lines of a closed shape that were drawn using the Line Segment Tool, Arc Tool or the Spiral Tool, even though those lines may be intersecting each other at any point and regardless if they are Grouped or not.
...Hope this helps.

[Zehzyy]

okay but why is it that whenever i try to erase something it ends up adding to the same color and not erasing white like it doesnt let me change the color

[publiqgc]

How do you change the size of eraser tool. When i up the size it goes to a color fill

[agenarts]

Ok, but im trying to erase mistakes i did on the color layers. I picked up and put down color a lot of times. And it just erases the while chunk that i did there. How do you erase normally like you would do in procreate?

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