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Remove an image background in PowerPoint

June 24, 2010 by Ellen Finkelstein 15 Comments

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One of the features of PowerPoint 2010 and later is the ability to remove the background of an image. This is different from making one color in the background transparent, which you can do in earlier versions. (I describe that process in a tip, “Cool contour shadows.”)

PowerPoint 2010 lets you specify which parts of the image you want to keep or discard. It doesn’t always work perfectly, but for the right image — usually one with clear outlines — it’s a great tool.

Watch how it works.

     

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Eran yuri Kolber

Nicely done 🙂

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12 years ago
Westieman1
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Thanks, Ellen. You did a great job of explaining and showing how to do this with 2010. As a college professor, your work is extremely helpful; I just wish more of my colleagues would put more effort into their presentations. Bravo!

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11 years ago
Ellen
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Thanks for your kind comment! I have a talk that I’ve given to college professors that will help them make their presentations much more effective for learning outcomes — and the students will appreciate the results, too. If you think you can arrange a workshop, please let me know. Just click the Contact link on my website.

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11 years ago
Brad
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Brad

Thanks so much for the tutorial. I am liking the many new and powerful features of PowerPoint 2010, but am very frustrated trying to learn it!

Your tutorial was a big help!

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11 years ago
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[…] 2010, click the Format tab and use the Remove Background tool to remove its background. I have instructions here. Some other useful blog posts for earlier versions on PowerPoint are here and here. In the image […]

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10 years ago
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[…] original image, removed the background using PowerPoint 2010′s Remove Background feature. (See instructions here.) Then I applied a solid dark blue […]

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10 years ago
HECTOR
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HECTOR

Excelente tutorial. La felicito por compartir sus conocimientos. Dios la Bendiga.

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10 years ago
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clipping path services

I always thought that removing background is only possible in Photoshop. Today I have learned a really cool trick. Thanks a lot Ellen!!

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8 years ago
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Thanks for some other fantastic article.
Where elsse may anybody get that kind of
information in such an ideal manner of writing? I have a presentation next week, and I’m at the search for
such info.

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8 years ago
Michael Cooper
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Thanks for shear it, It is really good article

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7 years ago
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[…] of information about how background removal works. Try this tutorial from MrRoughton.com or this tutorial from […]

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6 years ago
Leonida
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Hello! I’m at work browsing your blog from my new iphone 4!
Just wanted to say I love reading your blog and look forward
to all your posts! Keep up the excellent work!

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6 years ago
Angelina Veronica
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Angelina Veronica

Oh its great idea i do not love to use photoshop so i can remove the background using powerpoint its really excellent.

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6 years ago
Rhidul Tarif
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Rhidul Tarif

I must thank you for sharing this useful topic. Really a worth reading post ! it explains it all so easliy ! thank you for sharing this article !!

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4 years ago
Duc
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Thank you for sharing this great information. I’ll try them and see how they go. I also wanted to share an automatic photo background remover and it works great too. It’s “https://removal.ai”. I believe it will help you too.

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