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NEW VERSION: Since DA stopped supporting SWF, you can't see the old video. If you came here looking for how to create a dedicated eraser from an existing brush, a video outlining the process can be seen by clicking on the link to a new DA post below:

BELATED EDIT: Okay, call me a dumbass (go ahead, the comments are right down there) but about a year after I made this... which is some time ago now!... someone pointed out to me that it's possible to paint with transparency in CSP, which was news to me at the time. I'd come from about 20 years of working with Photoshop and to the best of my knowledge, that's still not possible in PS. Anyway, the upshot of this is, if you simply create a quick switch from paint to transparency, you can instantly turn any brush into its own eraser and back again without going through the steps below. I've got the left-click on my Wacom pen set up to toggle paint/transparency. THAT SAID, if you still want to create a dedicated eraser brush with very specific characteristics, the steps below still apply and will enable you to do that. Thank you, and good night.

I started using Clip Studio Paint a couple of months ago because someone recommended it to me as the next level up from SAI. I've loved SAI a bunch but there are just so many things to love even more about CSP that I hardly know where to start.

One of the thing that's bugged me, though, is how chintzy the erasers are, especially frustrating when you're working with masks. But I came to a couple of realizations in the past day or so and I wanted to share them in case anyone else is considering moving over to CSP (or Manga Studio; I think they're pretty much the same thing), or else already has but is having the same problem.

So the video shows how it's done. There might be faster ways of doing this but I only just stumbled upon it today so... it is what it is. Here goes...

[Note that this seems to work for some tools, but not every drawing tool gives you the option to change its combine mode, which is central to this.]

1) Choose the tool whose characteristics you'd like to use as a brush (in this case, I chose Blur Spray in the Airbrushes tool set).

2) Duplicate the tool by dragging it down to the the Create copy of currently selected sub tool icon.

3) Rename the tool (basically, keep the name and add "eraser" to the end of the name).

4) Change the tool icon to Eraser.

5) Click OK to close the dialog.

6) Set the tool's Combine Method to "Clear".

7) Optionally, you can lower the opacity of the tool so that you can use it to build your erasure in levels, rather than 100% all-or-nothing.

8) Click the Sub Tool panel's menu tab and select Export sub tool.

9) Save the tool in a place you'll be able to find it, and with a name that will clearly identify it.

10) Delete the tool from its current location (you don't want it there; you want it in the erasers palette).

11) Choose the Eraser tool.

12) In the sub tool panel, click the menu tab and select Import sub tool.

13) Navigate to where you stored the new eraser brush and select it.

14) Click OK.

You now have an eraser with the characteristics of one of your brushes. Doing this means you don't have to keep changing the brush's Combine Method back and forth from Normal to Clear.

Description
NEW VERSION: Since DA stopped supporting SWF, you can't see the old video. If you came here looking for how to create a dedicated eraser from an existing brush, a video outlining the process can be seen by clicking on the link to a new DA post below:

BELATED EDIT: Okay, call me a dumbass (go ahead, the comments are right down there) but about a year after I made this... which is some time ago now!... someone pointed out to me that it's possible to paint with transparency in CSP, which was news to me at the time. I'd come from about 20 years of working with Photoshop and to the best of my knowledge, that's still not possible in PS. Anyway, the upshot of this is, if you simply create a quick switch from paint to transparency, you can instantly turn any brush into its own eraser and back again without going through the steps below. I've got the left-click on my Wacom pen set up to toggle paint/transparency. THAT SAID, if you still want to create a dedicated eraser brush with very specific characteristics, the steps below still apply and will enable you to do that. Thank you, and good night.

I started using Clip Studio Paint a couple of months ago because someone recommended it to me as the next level up from SAI. I've loved SAI a bunch but there are just so many things to love even more about CSP that I hardly know where to start.

One of the thing that's bugged me, though, is how chintzy the erasers are, especially frustrating when you're working with masks. But I came to a couple of realizations in the past day or so and I wanted to share them in case anyone else is considering moving over to CSP (or Manga Studio; I think they're pretty much the same thing), or else already has but is having the same problem.

So the video shows how it's done. There might be faster ways of doing this but I only just stumbled upon it today so... it is what it is. Here goes...

[Note that this seems to work for some tools, but not every drawing tool gives you the option to change its combine mode, which is central to this.]

1) Choose the tool whose characteristics you'd like to use as a brush (in this case, I chose Blur Spray in the Airbrushes tool set).

2) Duplicate the tool by dragging it down to the the Create copy of currently selected sub tool icon.

3) Rename the tool (basically, keep the name and add "eraser" to the end of the name).

4) Change the tool icon to Eraser.

5) Click OK to close the dialog.

6) Set the tool's Combine Method to "Clear".

7) Optionally, you can lower the opacity of the tool so that you can use it to build your erasure in levels, rather than 100% all-or-nothing.

8) Click the Sub Tool panel's menu tab and select Export sub tool.

9) Save the tool in a place you'll be able to find it, and with a name that will clearly identify it.

10) Delete the tool from its current location (you don't want it there; you want it in the erasers palette).

11) Choose the Eraser tool.

12) In the sub tool panel, click the menu tab and select Import sub tool.

13) Navigate to where you stored the new eraser brush and select it.

14) Click OK.

You now have an eraser with the characteristics of one of your brushes. Doing this means you don't have to keep changing the brush's Combine Method back and forth from Normal to Clear.