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Remove the background from pictures

Remove the background from pictures

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Remove the background from pictures

- [Instructor] I've inserted a fairly large picture into this slide. And while I like it, I would love to have just the person and not the busy picture frame in the background. Facebook comes with a tool that will allow us to remove the background from this picture. It's called the background removal tool. I'm going to start by clicking on the picture. In the Format ribbon tab, I'll click Remove Background, all the way on the left. Before I do anything, PowerPoint is going to decide what it thinks should be kept and what it thinks should go away. Everything in pink is what's going to go away. And everything that remains the same color is what it thinks it should keep. Now, right away, I can see that it's got it backwards. But, fortunately, the tool allows us to manually override everything. On the top left-hand side, I'm, first, going to click Mark Areas to Keep. I'm going to start by drawing a long line all the way down, so it knows that I want to keep the actual person. It's got a…

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