I do a lot of PowerPoint... way too much.
I can manipulate images well before the hit PowerPoint but as soon as you drop them in sometimes the template colors conflict etc. (you may not notice the first template you use but if you reuse slides on many templates you'll find yourself in a world of pain).
if you take the image and make it transparent in
Say I make a screen shot and transparent it out in Paint.net when you paste it you lose transparency;
so you need to make PowerPoint think the image is transparent.
below are instructions
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then I want to drop it into PowerPoint on say a green background (i copy and paste)
You see that little piece of white funkiness?
Well what I do to get sexy slides is:
Use the wand to select the transparent area;
then fill the transparent area with some color I'm which isn't presence in the screenshot (like purple)
then paste the entire image into PowerPoint (purple bits and all);
select the image you want to modify and select "drawing" top the sub context menu in the ribbon
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you can then select the recolor menu on the left hand side and select "set transparent"
then click the NEON color you selected (purple in my case)
the image on the right looks much more professional that the one on the left.
PingBack from http://www.biosensorab.org/2008/02/24/powerpoint-how-do-you-get-nice-transparent-images/
You're right - you do WAY too much PowerPoint :P
Does this work with PowerPoint 2003? I can't find the "wand" or the tools bar.
Thanks! I was so frustrated trying to make it transparent in painshop then pasting into powerpoint only to have no transparency! Your method not only works perfect ... but also saves me the trouble of even needing to open paintshop
How can I set an entire color picture to be transparent, so that I can see something anywhere beneath it? Powerpoint seems to let you set the transparency only for one single color. That doesn't help if you want a truly transparent color image.
in order to set true transparency of images, ie if you dont want that "BOX" around your image, then I suggest tha tyou use an image editor like Fireworks.
Work in PNG mode and then insert the image...this works ecery time.
Oh, and you can also make the entire image transparent to any levl you wish, ie you can create a ghost image from Fireworks then insert into PP.
The above also works with Photoshop and the FREE Pixlr (http://www.pixlr.com/)
Hope this helps
Ken
But, I can't believe that I can't do any transpartent pictures anymore. I could do that with Win 2003. Are you sure I can't set a whole picture transparent with a specific percentage?
Awesome, thank you very much. You just saved me a headache!
Nice article... but you could have just taken two different screenshots :-) one screenshot of the main window and another for the right side menu :-P
Good thinking for the trick though - might come in handy :-) Thanks!
Finally figured out how to make the whole image transparent- draw a shape, then in the format dialog box, choose fill with image (choose file), then you can play with the transparency. What a pain.