There are many reasons you may want to create transparency in a picture—and there are several transparency options in PowerPoint to achieve what you need. You may need to remove the background from an object, adjust the transparency on the whole picture, or make a part of the picture transparent.
Some reasons for this include:
Make the whole picture transparent
Make part of a picture transparent
Note: When you print pictures with transparent areas, the transparent areas are the same color as the paper. On your screen or a website, the transparent areas are the same color as the background.
Make the Whole Picture Transparent
Note: You can vary the percentage of transparency from 0 (fully opaque) to 100% (fully transparent).
Make part of a picture transparent
Note: Though colors may appear to be the same, it is likely there is a range of a colors within a picture. You cannot make more than one color transparent.
You cannot make a picture transparent using the online PowerPoint program.
Note: Unless you save your image as a picture once it is edited, you will lose any background removal done outside of your presentation (i.e., You cannot use that same picture in a banner. It will go back to its default outside of the presentation unless you save it as a picture).
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