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PowerPoint has a lot of great features
for editing pictures but probably the
most powerful one is background removal
you can use this feature to cut out the
background or any other part of the
picture that you don't want to get
started click on the image and go to the
format tab
and on the left side of the ribbon
select the remove background command
the PowerPoint will try to guess which
areas of the picture are part of the
background and they will be marked with
this kind of magenta color and it
doesn't look exactly right yet but we're
going to fix it the first thing you
should do is drag the selection handles
so that the foreground is inside the box
in PowerPoint we'll kind of readjust the
image after you do that
but there are still a few areas that
it's missed so we're just going to help
it decide which areas to remove and
which areas to keep I want to remove
this area so I'll click mark areas to
remove
and then just click and drag to create a
mark on the image
you can create marks wherever they're
needed
and if you make a mistake just click
delete mark and then click on the mark
and it will disappear
and I'm just going to try again here
sometimes it takes a couple of tries
especially when you're working on the
details
and I also want to remove this area
below the bowl but now that's caused
another problem PowerPoint thinks this
part of the bowl should be removed but I
want to keep it in the picture
so I'll click mark areas to keep and
then draw a mark there to fix it
and I just need to add a few more marks
to the image and then I'll be done
okay it looks like all of the parts that
I want to remove are now magenta so the
last thing we need to do is click keep
changes
now the background has been cut out and
any objects that are behind the picture
will show through so if you wanted to
make it more interesting you could put a
shape or a picture behind it to give it
a different look and at any time if you
see something that you've missed you can
just click the remove background command
again and add or delete markings as
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