Solved: Paint Plugin: Eraser acts as Paintbrush

[Ela-Luca]

Hi everybody,
I am glad to be back to irfanview. I have just installed it on my surface pro x, running with Windows 11.
My problem is that I can't use the eraser properly, every time I do so it just paints, acting as a second paintbrush (the only difference is that the eraser uses the background color and the paintbrush the foreground one). I guess I can change it somewhere. But how and where?
Thanks a lot for helping me out
Ela

[JendaLinda]

By selecting a background color, you are selecting the color of "paper", so the eraser will erase to that color.

[Ela-Luca]

Oh, I see.... What I want to do is to earse the things which I am adding to the photo without erasing parts of the original photo. How can I NOT select a background color? A background color is already chosen when I start irfanview. Clicking on the background color I don't see any option to deselct it or to click "no color".

[JendaLinda]

Open the Paint options (as highlighted in green). There is an option to enable the right mouse button action of the eraser. That allows to use the eraser to restore the previous image.

[Ela-Luca]

Thanks a lot! Now, I know how to do it. I wouldn't have got it alone...