: How to change the shape of the eraser tool in Illustrator? I am Photoshop enthusiast, I can't find how to change eraser shape like in Photoshop (eraser "brush" mode). In Illustrator eraser

@Martha945

I use the pencil eraser in brush mode.

Under the brush panel make sure the only boxes checked are Smoothing and Dual Brush, and it should show a mostly solid white brush preview.

The brush with these settings should act just like "block mode" and erase everything under it. You probably already figured something out by now but oh well.

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@Angela777

I want you to know about some trick which probably will help you subtract the brush equal shapes from other shapes.

Let's say you have a circle and some brush:



You want to subtract from the circle the shape equal to this triangular brush.

For that, you Click-and-Drug this brush to any free-of-objects area on your artboard or outside it - you will get this shape exactly -



Now, you Expand this shape - it always will result in the rectangle and a shape itself, you select the shape and resize it with shift key and after that you can use Pathfinder to cut this shape as usual -



I moved the shape aside -



Probably in some situation you can use this trick for fast cutting.

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@Angela777

Double click on eraser icon gives you this menu -



where you can change some parameters of the cursor -



If you want to work precisely and very fast I suggest you spent some time learning Pathfinder tool.

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