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PowerPoint has a great feature called background
removal that can be used to remove parts of

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your picture, giving it a transparent background.

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Not only is this a useful tool—it also opens
up tons of creative possibilities.

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Here's how it works.

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First, make sure the image is selected.

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Then click the Remove Background command on
the Format tab.

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Don't worry if the picture doesn't look good
yet because we're going to make a few adjustments.

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The first thing you should do is click & drag
the selection handles so the foreground areas

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are inside the box...

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Right now, the background areas are highlighted
bright pink or magenta, but when we're done,

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they'll be removed from the image all together.

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With some pictures, Power Point needs a little
help deciding which areas to remove, and which

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areas to keep.

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In this picture, we have a couple problems.

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Most of the roses and also the stems are being
marked as part of the background, so we need

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to tell Power Point to keep those areas in
the picture.

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Click Mark Areas to Keep... then click and
drag to create a line over the areas you want.

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As you can see, PowerPoint will readjust the
image while you work.

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Now it's including part of the background
by accident.

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So we need to mark this area to remove.

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That looks better.

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Go through the image and keep marking areas
you need.

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If you make a mistake, all you have to do
is click Delete Mark... then click the mark

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you want to remove.

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At this point, our foreground subjects look
pretty good, and the entire background is

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highlighted magenta.

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Notice that I've left these two roses in the
background, which is going to remove them

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from the image too.

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This is just another way of using the feature
to customize your image.

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You decide what's part of the background and
what's not, so it's completely up to you.

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When you're ready, you just need to exit the
tool.

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Click the Keep Changes button here... and
that's it!

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Now that the picture has a transparent background,
there are lots of interesting things we can

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do with it.

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For example, we could place it on top of a
shape... or even another picture.

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If you notice that you've missed something,
you can always edit the picture again by returning

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to the Remove Background command.

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With this very special feature, you can do
things in PowerPoint that you would normally

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do in a photo editing program.

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Now that you know how it works, make sure
you give it a try!