

When you’re satisfied with how your image looks, click Keep Changes to save these changes to your image. When you release your mouse button, PowerPoint will add the pink color to the areas you identified for removal.ħ.


Click to select the image, and then click on the Insert button to drop it onto your slide.ģ. Insert the image you want to edit by clicking the Insert tab, selecting Pictures, and then browsing to the location of the saved image on your computer. Let’s walk through the process, step by step:Ģ. She also looks purposeful, not just decorative.īut the best part about removing backgrounds from images is how easy it is to do in PowerPoint.

In the new version, she’s grounded (not floating), and she gives the slide some depth and dimension against the blurred background. What exactly did I do and how did I do it? For starters, I removed the white background on the real estate agent’s image to blend her into the overall composition of my slide. That’s better, right? All it took was a little creativity and some PowerPoint magic! Now let’s compare my original version, above, to the one I created today, below. So I couldn’t resist I decided to fire up PowerPoint and give this slide a little visual design makeover. But what really jumps out at me is how weird it looks having that real estate agent floating in a white rectangle on an otherwise blue background. Notice anything odd about it? Yeah, it’s not the most innovative layout or color scheme. Here’s a slide from a course I created about 12 years ago: Every once in awhile, I like to dig through my archives and look at projects from the early years of my e-learning career.
