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Create a soft look with semi-transparent images in PowerPoint

July 8, 2017 by Ellen Finkelstein 8 Comments

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You can’t make an image itself transparent in PowerPoint, but there’s a workaround. Update! In PowerPoint 365 (the subscription version), you can now make an image transparent. See the end of this blog post. Why would you want to make an image transparent? For a soft look To overlap images To let text show through You […]

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