The Best Background Eraser for Cricut Crafts

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Today I thought I would test a few different options to find the best background erase for Cricut crafts.

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Cricut Automatic Background Removal Tool

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I’m starting with a simple image. First, click upload in Cricut Design Space. Then, on the next screen, I almost always choose complex.

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Then you will see the automatic tool on the left hand side. You just press one button and wait for Design Space to remove your background.

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As you can see in the image below, it missed part of the background. Just click erase manually to remove that area.

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You can change the eraser size to larger as well. Remember that you want the background to be checked, which means that the background is not there anymore.

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You can click the “preview cut image” button at any time to see what it’s going to cut around.

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Swipe up to see the full tutorial

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