How to remove the background from a picture in Microsoft PowerPoint

Removing a distracting background from an image allows your audience to focus on the subject. Microsoft PowerPoint provides a set of basic image editing tools, including one that lets you erase the background of an image.

First, open PowerPoint and insert the image (Insert> Image) containing the background you want to erase.

Next, click on the tab “Format” that appears once the image is inserted.

In the group “Adjust”, select option “Clear background”.

Once selected, the background of the image will turn magenta while the foreground remains intact. The part of the image highlighted with magenta is the area to be removed.

PowerPoint is generally pretty good at accurately highlighting the correct areas that you would expect to erase from an image, but as you can see in the next screenshot, Is not always 100 percent accurate.

Fortunately, that appears once the image is inserted “that appears once the image is inserted” O “Mark areas to conserve”, respectively, that appears once the image is inserted “that appears once the image is inserted”.

In this example, we will remove the rest of the wooden background from our image, that appears once the image is inserted “that appears once the image is inserted”.

Once selected, your cursor will change to a drawing pencil. Click and drag the cursor around the areas you would like to erase (keep you). Once finished, click anywhere outside the image and the changes will be reflected automatically.

Make sure to save your presentation (File> Keep), so you don't lose the changes.

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