Pictures – Appearance: Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint

Created: Tuesday, June 3, 2014, posted by Geetesh at 1:23 pm

Updated: Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5:32 pm

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PowerPoint’s Remove Background option lets you remove the background from an inserted picture. This can be a great feature if you want to remove the sky, a wall, any backdrop, or something else in a photograph so that the slide background shows through as transparent within the removed parts of the picture.

To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.

Microsoft Windows

Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint 2016

Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint 2013

Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint 2010

Apple Mac

Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint 2011

Remove Background from Pictures in PowerPoint

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