Erasing with the History tool

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Lesam
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Erasing with the History tool

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G'day, I am a complete novice ( senior ) learning photoshop courtesy of the generous folk who post tutorials on the web and contribute to forums such as this.
I recall seeing a tip using History tool to erase part of an image to reveal an underlying image.
I have opened two images, same size, on the one canvas creating a background and layer 1.
When I erase using, the History tool, I get a white patch not the unjderlying background image.
I would appreciate any directions to achieve the correct result.

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Hi
I tried what you were doing and didn't have much luck with it. However, I think that the effect you want can be done perhaps easier by using the regular erase tool. Set it as a very soft fuzzy brush and make sure that the image you want to erase is the top layer. You might even want to duplicate the top layer (Ctrl-J ) and then turn that layer off. That way you can toggel between the two and see how the effect is going.
Hope this helps ya
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Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 11:47 pm Post subject:

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Hi
I tried what you were doing and didn't have much luck with it. However, I think that the effect you want can be done perhaps easier by using the regular erase tool. Set it as a very soft fuzzy brush and make sure that the image you want to erase is the top layer. You might even want to duplicate the top layer (Ctrl-J ) and then turn that layer off. That way you can toggel between the two and see how the effect is going.
Hope this helps ya
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Post by Lesam »

Thanks for that quick response.
I realise now that I need to make a duplicate copy of background before bringing in the second image.
Works a treat, but I now have two ( at least ) ways to get the result.

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Hey,
Glad to have helped you.
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