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Use any image as the background for one or more slides in your PowerPoint presentation when you want to give your presentation a personal touch. Adjust the picture's transparency so that it doesn't over-power your text.
Instructions in this article apply toPowerPoint for Office 365, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2013, and PowerPoint 2010.
Choose the Background Picture Carefully
By default, the picture you choose for the background of your slide is stretched to fit the slide. To avoid distortion, choose a horizontal format picture and one with high resolution.
A picture with high resolution appears crisp and clear, while a picture with low resolution appears blurry when it is enlarged and stretched to fit the slide. Stretching the picture can result in a distorted image.
Add and Format a Background Image
To add a picture as the background image for a PowerPoint slide:
- Open the PowerPoint presentation and go to the slide where you want to add a background image. If you want to add it to all of your slides, add it to any slide.
- Select Design > Format Background. Or, right-click on the slide and select Format Background. The Format Background pane opens.
- Select File to insert a picture from your computer or network drive, select Clipboard to insert a picture you copied, or select Online (or Clip Art in PowerPoint 2010)to search for a picture online.
- Locate the picture you want to use and select Insert.
- Set the transparency level for the picture using the Transparency slider.
- Choose Reset Background to remove the photo so you can start over, Close to apply the picture as the background to one slide, or Apply to All to apply the picture as the background to all the slides in the presentation.
To remove the background image, open the Format Background pane and choose Solid Fill or another option.
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If you're accustomed to using the 'magic wand' tool to make parts of pictures transparent in Microsoft Office applications, you'll need to rearrange your workflow in Microsoft PowerPoint for Mac 2011. The presentation program features a new interface that relocates the commands for changing the appearance of graphics you add to your slides. The Formatting Palette you used in previous versions gives way to context-sensitive commands you issue by clicking on the ribbon at the top of the application window.
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Insert your picture, either from a file you created in an image-editing application or from the clip art collection that ships with Microsoft Office. The Home tab of the PowerPoint ribbon includes an Insert tab with a 'Picture' icon that opens a drop-down menu when you click on it, revealing the options for picture insertion.
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Leave the picture selected so the PowerPoint ribbon displays the Format Picture tab. Within the Adjust section of the tab, click on the 'Recolor' button and select 'Set Transparent Color.'
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Click within your picture on the color area you want to make transparent. Areas of solid color respond better to this feature than do colors that appear within the continuous-tone details of a photograph.
Tips
- To extract an object from its background, use PowerPoint's Remove Background feature, accessible from the Format Picture tab.
- To remove transparency where you've applied it to an image, select the picture and click on the 'Reset' button at the right of the Format Picture tab's Adjust section.
- If you can't remove the background from an image, it may be an Encapsulated PostScript graphic or part of a group.
Warning
- PowerPoint's 'Set Transparent Color' feature only works on the one specific shade that's under your cursor when you click on your image to process it. If you apply it to what looks like a large solid-color area in a photograph -- a green lawn, blue ocean or off-white wall -- you'll either see a splotched appearance or think the procedure didn't work. That's because the image actually contains a wide range of shades that appear solid, and only one shade became transparent.
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