powerpoint for mac set transparent color

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Removing the background of an image in PowerPoint makes that portion of the picture transparent, allowing whatever is behind the picture, such as text or another color or picture, to show.

This is handy if you want to blend your photos into the slide background seamlessly.

When the background in a picture is a solid color, its easy to remove the background so that only the main image appears in the picture.

Select the image.

A new tab, Picture Tools Format, is added to PowerPoint.

In PowerPoint for Mac, go to Picture Format and choose Remove Background.

PowerPoint colors the image pink to indicate the parts that it thinks is the background.

To customize which areas of the picture are kept and which are made transparent, choose either Mark Areas to Keep or Mark Areas to Remove to designate parts of the photo that should remain or be deleted.

Sometimes, the image ends up with more or less transparency than youd like it to have.

There is another way to make a solid color in the image transparent.

Select Color to display a list of color variations and choose Set Transparent Color.

Select an area of the picture that is the color you want to make transparent.

Photos and other complex images with multiple objects and similar color shades are difficult to edit in this way.

Powerpoint For Mac Set Transparent Color