How to Remove a Photo Background in PowerPoint

Have you ever heard about remove a photo background in PowerPoint? If there is an unwanted background on your photo, what will you do?

Many people may choose to remove the background to a transparent background, so that they add other favorite background on this photo. However, this idea come with a problem, how to remove a photo background?

Actually, you can do this job with Adobe Photoshop. But many user don't know how to use this professional software exactly, some of them even don't have this software on their computer. Fortunately, PowerPoint can replace Photoshop to help you remove a photo background, and in this article, we will teach you the detailed steps of how to remove background in PowerPoint.

What is more, you can also learn how to remove background in Photoshop in this article.

• Part 1: How to Remove a Photo Background in PowerPoint
• Part 2: How to Remove a Photo Background in Photoshop

Part 1: How to Remove a Photo Background in PowerPoint

PowerPoint is not only a program you can use to make slideshow, you can also use this software to remove background from image PowerPoint.

But it is advised to remove some images with white or solid background, for those images, which have high contrast with the foreground are the easiest images to be removed background in PowerPoint. Or when the images are big size in PowerPoint and cause a slow opening. (Learn here to compress images in PowerPoint.)

In what follows is the detailed steps of how to remove background in PowerPoint, and you can take this way on your Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 or later.

Step 1. Insert image to PowerPoint

Launch PowerPoint on your computer firstly, and then you need to insert your image you want to remove the background with. Just click on Insert button, which is in the top tool bar and then add the photo.

Step 2. Choose Remove background

Now you need to click on your image. Then you need to click on File button (on a PC) or Adjust button (on a Mac) in the top tool bar, and in the menu, you can choose Remove background.

Step 3. Keep or delete cropped image

Next PowerPoint will try to remove the image background automatically. Nevertheless, it can't help you to remove the background from this image very accurately, and now you are finishing the process of how to remove background in PowerPoint. Just click to keep or delete the final cropped image in tool bar.

Step 4. Adjust your wanted and unwanted areas

You need to drag the box around the image and adjust it to include the entire area of the image you want to keep, and you should know the purple area will ultimately be removed.

You can use the Mark Areas to Remove option and click on any additional areas you want to remove, then they will show a minus sign, and if you want to keep these areas, use Mark Areas to Keep option and click on the areas you want to keep, then they will show a plus sign.

Step 5. Remove background from image PowerPoint

When you finished, just click on somewhere outside of your image, and the background will be removed by PowerPoint. Last but not least, don't forget to save the image which you have removed the background as a PNG file in your computer. (It is more advised to save this edited picture in PNG format, for this format can preserve its transparent background.)

Part 2: How to Remove a Photo Background in Photoshop

If you want to remove background from image PowerPoint, but the picture is so difficult that your PowerPoint can work for it, you may need to ask Photoshop for help. Photoshop is a professional photo editor, which has powerful functions to help you edit your images and photos. To learn how to remove a photo background in Photoshop, you can follow the next steps.

Step 1. Add image to Photoshop

Launch Photoshop on your computer and then click File button, which is in the tool bar to open your image. You can also simply drag the photo into this program. Then click on Layer that is also in the top tool bar, and you can see Small Object in the menu, just highlight on it and then click Convert to Small Object.

Step 2. Prepare for removing

Now you need to click on Layer option again, and choose Rasterize. Next you can click on Smart Object in Rasterize. You can also click on View dropdown and chose Zoom In or Zoom Out to zoom your picture.

Step 3. Select the area

Then select Polygonal Lasso Tool from the left tool bar. Click on your image, and then trace the part you want to keep with a series of clicks from point to point. Once finished, you need to connect your line to the first point you started with, and then it will show a flashing dashed line to you.

Step 4. Remove image background

Now you need to click on Select option, which is in top menu and then choose Inverse, and just press the Delete on your keyboard. The background that was highlighted before will turn into a checkered grid, which means your background is transparent. Now you are finishing the process of removing image background and just save your image as a PNG file.

Conclusion

If you are finding the guide of how to remove background in PowerPoint, this article is very useful to you. You can simply remove background from image PowerPoint by following the steps we list to you, and we also recommend you another way of removing image background with Photoshop. You can choose the suitable way according your needs.

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