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PowerPoint has a lot of great features for
editing

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pictures,

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but probably the most powerful one is
background removal.

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You can use this feature to cut out the background

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or any other part of the picture
that you don't want.

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To get started, click on the image and go
to the

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Format tab.

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And on the left side of the Ribbon, select
the

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Remove Background command.

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PowerPoint will try to guess which areas of
the

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picture are part of the background,

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and they will
be marked with this kind of magenta color.

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It doesn't look exactly right yet, but we're
going

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to fix it.

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The first thing you should do is drag the
selection handles

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so that the foreground is inside the box.

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And PowerPoint will kind of readjust the image
after you do that.

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But there are still a few areas that it's
missed,

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so we're just going to help it decide which
areas

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to remove, and which areas to keep.

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I want to remove this area, so I'll click
Mark

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Areas to Remove,

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and then just click and drag to
create a mark on the image.

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You can create marks wherever they're needed,

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and if you make a mistake,
just click Delete Mark

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and then click on the mark and it will disappear.

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And I'm just going to try again here.

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Sometimes it takes a couple of tries, especially
when you're working on the details.

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And I also want to remove this area below
the

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bowl.

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But now that's caused another problem.

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PowerPoint thinks this part of the bowl should
be

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removed, but I want to keep it in the picture.

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So I'll click Mark Areas to Keep and then
draw a

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mark there to fix it.

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And I just need to add a few more marks to
the

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image, and then I'll be done.

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Okay, it looks like all of the parts that
I want

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to remove are now magenta,

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so the last thing we
need to do is click Keep Changes.

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Now, the background has been cut out,

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and any objects that are behind the
picture will show through.

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So if you wanted to make it more interesting,

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you could put a shape or a picture behind
it

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to give it a different look.

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And at any time, if you see
something that you've missed,

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you can just click the Remove Background
command again and add or delete markings as

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needed.