Photo Editing - Cool Eraser Tool

I just finished up Tony Vincent's Classy Graphics course. It is an excellent online class if you are looking for something fun and creative to do. I have actually taken all of his classes and they are all OUTSTANDING. I made the graphic above in his class as one of my assignments.

He shares so many tools and sites with classmates and one great website he highlighted was cleanup.pictures. It is a site that can remove ELEMENTS from a picture. I have heard of sites where you can remove the background of a picture but not an element of a picture.

It is a simple tool to use. You simply upload the picture and then use the brush to erase an element. The system AI does the rest. Here is an example of removing a cone from a group picture.

Sometimes you have use the brush multiple times to get rid of an element. This picture required a lot of passes of the brush to remove the chair and unwanted guest.

If you haven't tried it you definitely will want to bookmark the site for future use!

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