Open a design in the Adobe Express editor.
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
- What's new
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Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
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Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
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Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
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Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
- Create with templates
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Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
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Organize your designs
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Arrange layers and pages
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Work with layers
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Bulk, create, and generate designs
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- Create an Internal listing
- Align elements
- Import assets
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Arrange layers and pages
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
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Share and publish
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Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Present a design in Adobe Express
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Print in Adobe Express
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
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Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Create and collaborate with Shared Calendars
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Share and collaborate
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Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
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Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files into projects in Adobe Express
- Move files to a project in Adobe Express
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
-
Access and file conversion issues
- Error notification when accessing prior files
- Unable to locate prior files
- Design changed in files migrated from previous version of Adobe Expres
- Unable to open Adobe Express on desktop
- Personal profile unavailable after upgrading to Adobe Express for Teams
- Favorites unavailable after upgrading to Adobe Express for Teams
- Video playback is slow in Adobe Express on Chromebook
- Video upload is slow in Adobe Express on Chromebook
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
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Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
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For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe Express for Education account
- For students
-
For educators
- Welcome to the Adobe Express User Guide
- What's new
-
Get set up
- Learn the basics
- Access the app
- Preferences and settings
-
Create and edit videos
- Create videos
- Edit videos
- Organize clips
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit images
- Create and modify with generative AI
- Edit images
- Change file formats
-
Create and edit documents and webpages
- Create and edit documents
- Create webpages
- Create drawings
- Create with templates
-
Add effects to your designs
- Add audio
- Add animations
- Add text
- Add images and visuals
- Create QR codes
-
Organize your designs
-
Arrange layers and pages
- Group and ungroup objects
- Lock editing access
- Work with layers
- Add multiple pages to designs
- Technical requirements for using the Bulk Create and Generate add-on
- Bulk, create, and generate designs
- Create designs in bulk
- Technical requirements for using Bulk create
- Set up a spreadsheet for bulk creating designs
- Install Add-ons in Adobe Express
- Create an Internal listing
- Align elements
- Import assets
-
Arrange layers and pages
-
Work with other Adobe files
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator creative assets
- Work with Acrobat
-
Share and publish
-
Share and collaborate
- Invite collaborators
- Copy files between accounts
- Comment on shared files
- Privacy and permissions
- Unpublish shared files
- Share designs as remixable templates
- Manage presentation pages
- Present a design in Adobe Express
- Create TikTok videos and share them to TikTok Ads Manager
- Technical requirements for sharing videos to TikTok Ads Manager
- Share large files using WeTransfer
- Print in Adobe Express
- Print and order designs
- Design and print using print-ready templates
- Design for prints
-
Schedule and publish content
- Media specifications for Content Scheduler
- Content Scheduler overview
- Connect Facebook
- Connect Instagram for business account
- Connect X (Twitter), Pinterest, LinkedIn or TikTok
- Schedule and publish social media posts
- Generate captions for social media using generative AI
- Create and collaborate with Shared Calendars
-
Share and collaborate
-
Manage brands, libraries, and projects
- Create brands, libraries, and projects
-
Manage collaboration
- Edit roles in brands
- Apply brand to pages, images, and illustrations
- Best practices to apply brand colors and fonts
- Share brands
- Leave shared brands
- Custom fonts overview
- Add custom fonts to your brand
- Brand style restrictions overview
- Share templates with controlled permissions
- Create from shared templates
- Share libraries
- Create new files, folders, brands, and libraries
- Share projects
- Copy files into projects in Adobe Express
- Move files to a project in Adobe Express
-
Adobe Express on mobile
- Get set up
-
Create and edit designs
- Create images with generative AI
- Create text effects with generative AI
- Insert objects with generative AI
- Remove objects using Generative fill
- Generate editable templates with generative AI
- Create and edit videos
- Explore templates
- Work with Photoshop and Illustrator assets
- Create and manage brands
- Delete files
- Share designs
- Troubleshoot
-
Troubleshoot
- Known and fixed issues
-
Access and file conversion issues
- Error notification when accessing prior files
- Unable to locate prior files
- Design changed in files migrated from previous version of Adobe Expres
- Unable to open Adobe Express on desktop
- Personal profile unavailable after upgrading to Adobe Express for Teams
- Favorites unavailable after upgrading to Adobe Express for Teams
- Video playback is slow in Adobe Express on Chromebook
- Video upload is slow in Adobe Express on Chromebook
- Browser extension issues
- Projects issues
- Linked assets issues
-
Adobe Express subscription
- Free trials
- Subscription options
- Manage subscriptions
-
Adobe Express for education
-
For educators
- Adobe Express for Education overview
- Adobe Express for Education teachers verification
- School or district accounts overview
- Benefits of classroom accounts
- Personalize your education settings
- Create and access educator accounts
- Classrooms overview
- Create classrooms
- Add students to classrooms
- Manage classrooms
- Assignments overview
- Create assignments
- Share assignments
- Provide feedback on assignments
- Troubleshoot issues with assignments
- Assignments and classrooms FAQs
- Change email address for educator account
- Delete Adobe Express for Education account
- For students
-
For educators
Erase unwanted parts of an image
Last updated on
Mar 12, 2025
Learn how to easily remove specific areas of an image using the Erase tool in Adobe Express.
Try the app
Follow along with any design and learn how to use the Erase tool.
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Select an image on the page, then from the Image properties panel select Erase.
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Open the Brush dropdown and use Quick Selection to automatically select an area or use the Circle Brush to manually paint over it.
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Use the slider to adjust the brush's Size, Hardness, and Opacity.
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Brush over the unwanted area of the image, then select Done.
Tip: If you remove too much, use Restore to paint it back. -
Select Reset to restore the image to its original format or Invert to reverse the cutout selection.
Note:
Erase is a premium feature.