How to Remove Backgrounds from Images in PowerPoint

11 Feb

Here’s a simple tutorial that shows how to quickly remove the background color from your images.  Now this works if your background color is solid.  If it’s not, you’ll need to take the image into a graphics program, like the free Paint.net, to remove the background.

PowerPoint Tutorial

Click here to view the tutorial.

Basically, you’ll

  • Select the image
  • Choose format
  • Recolor
  • and Set Transparent Color
  • Then click on the color you want to be transparent.

The only downside is that you can only select one color.  And it removes that color regardless of where it’s at on the slide.  For simple images with solid color backgrounds, this works great.

What do you do to remove the background from your images in PowerPoint?

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2 Responses to “How to Remove Backgrounds from Images in PowerPoint”

  1. Image Tutorial 11. Feb, 2010 at 9:38 pm #

    Wow interesting tricks you are giving here. Thank you. I will try on my power point. I never know this before.

  2. Mark 12. Mar, 2012 at 11:58 am #

    I think the title of this article is very misleading. I am attempting to search for how to extract the background image from a presentation. Perhaps calling it “How to remove the background from images in powerpoint” would be better.

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