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Remove the background from pictures
From the course: PowerPoint 2019 Essential Training
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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Add images3m 50s
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Work with shapes3m 38s
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Format and add effects to objects3m 42s
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Align objects using the Arrange tool4m 26s
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Understand object layering4m 3s
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Group objects and use Format Painter4m 6s
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Remove the background from pictures2m 9s
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Merge and group shapes4m 5s
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Crop images to shapes2m 17s
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