Graphics Programs Reference
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Figure 12-21. The Background Eraser does a very careful job of separating these berries from
their background. Just be sure to keep the little crosshairs away from the color you want to keep.
Here, because the crosshairs are outside the red area, only the greenish background is getting re-
moved. But if you moved the crosshairs over a berry, the Background Eraser would bite chunks out
of it.
Drawing with Shapes
So many brush options and Adobe still isn't done—there's yet
another
way to draw things in
Elements. The program's shape tools (which share a slot in the Tools panel) let you draw
geometrically perfect shapes, regardless of your artistic ability. And not just simple shapes
like circles and rectangles: You can draw animals, plants, starbursts, picture frames—all sorts
of things, as shown in
Figure 12-22
. This tool should appeal to anyone whose grade-school
“masterpieces” always got put up on the wall…behind the piano.
