How To Make An Image Background Transparent In Powerpoint

How to Use PowerPoint’s Background Remover

When the background in a picture is a solid color, it’s easy to remove the background so that only the main image appears in the picture. This allows text, a picture, or another color to show and is a way to blend your photos into the slide background seamlessly.

Open the PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide with the image to which you want to apply a transparent background. Select the image. A new tab, Picture Tools Format, is added to PowerPoint.  Lifewire If you have multiple images on a slide and can’t select the one you want to work with, right-click any pictures that are on top of it and select Send to Back to temporarily move them out of the way. Go to Picture Tools Format and select Remove Background. In PowerPoint for Mac, go to Picture Format and choose Remove Background.  Lifewire 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. Then, draw a line around the area on the picture. In PowerPoint for Mac, use What to keep or What to remove.  Lifewire Select Keep Changes to apply the edits.

Sometimes, the image ends up with more or less transparency than you’d like it to have. If so, just repeat the steps above. PowerPoint saves all your changes and even lets you revert back to the original, non-transparent version.

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

In PowerPoint for Mac, use What to keep or What to remove.

Make a Single Color Transparent

There is another way to make a solid color in the image transparent. For instance, you can make a white background see-through.

Select the image and go to Picture Tools Format. Mac users need to select Picture Format. In Mac 2011, it’s called Format Picture. Select Color to display a list of color variations and choose Set Transparent Color. Mac 2011 users must choose Recolor first, and then Set Transparent Color.  Lifewire Select an area of the picture that is the color you want to make transparent.