Word 2010 has a great feature called
background removal which can
automatically remove parts of the
picture that you don't want this can
give your pictures a cleaner appearance
and if it's a document you're going to
be printing it can also save ink to get
started click on the picture and then go
to the format tab
and then select the remove background
command
and don't worry if it doesn't look good
yet because we're going to adjust it
the first thing you should do is drag
these selection handles so that the
foreground areas of the picture are all
inside the box
once you do that word will automatically
readjust the image
right now the background areas are
marked with kind of a magenta or purple
color but when we're done those areas
will be removed completely
now with some pictures word needs a
little bit of help deciding which areas
to remove and which areas to keep in
this picture there are a couple of
problems the woman's hand and the girl's
fingers are marked as background so we
need to tell word to keep those areas in
the picture click mark areas to keep and
then click and drag to create a line
somewhere in the middle of this area
and word will readjust the picture but
now it's including part of the
background as well so we need to mark
this area to remove
that looks better
go through the image and add markings
wherever they're needed
and if you make a mistake just click
delete mark and then click on the mark
and it'll disappear
okay it looks like our foreground
subjects are good and the entire
background is magenta so the last step
is just to click keep changes
and that's it since the background has
been cut out anything that's behind this
picture will now show through so if you
want you can give it a new background by
putting a shape or picture behind it
and at anytime if you see something that
you've missed you can always edit the
picture again by clicking on it and
going back to the background removal
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