PowerPoint is mainly a visual aid for presentations, it’s no surprise that many users would like to make the background transparent. A transparent background can help your PowerPoint slide look more professional and even make it easier to read the text on the slide. In a PowerPoint presentation, the images play an essential role in communicating the message. Sometimes images may require a little editing to fit the presentation’s objective.
You can make a background image transparent to reduce its intensity and get your audience to focus on the content displayed in the foreground.
There are a few ways to change the background transparent in PowerPoint, but we’ll show you two methods that should work in most cases.in PowerPoint, you’ll have the option to change the original look of an image to suit your presentation design by either making specific colors or sections of your background image transparent. This is useful when your design has a specific color scheme or you just need to tone down the brightness.
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Method 1:
1. Open PowerPoint and go to the slide you want to edit.
2. Right-click on the slide and select “Format Background” from the drop-down menu.
3. In the “Format Background” window, select the “Picture or texture fill” option.
4. Click the “File…” button and select the image you want to use as your transparent background.
5. Click the “Insert” button.
6. Select the “Tile Picture As Texture” checkbox.
7. Adjust the transparency of the image by moving the slider under “Transparency”.
8. Click the “Apply to All” button to apply the transparent background to all slides in your PowerPoint presentation.
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Method 2:
1. Open PowerPoint and go to the slide you want to edit.
2. Right-click on the slide and select “Format Background” from the drop-down menu.
3. In the “Format Background” window, select the “Solid fill” option.
4. Adjust the transparency of the slide by moving the slider under “Transparency”.
5. Click the “Apply to All” button to apply the transparent background to all slides in your PowerPoint presentation.
Both of these methods should work in most cases, but if you’re still having trouble making the background transparent, you can try one of the other methods listed in the “Format Background” window. For example, you can try using the “Gradient fill” or “Pattern fills” options.
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How to Use PowerPoint’s Background Remover?
If you have a solid color image background, it’s easy to remove the background. By removing it, the main image appears in the picture. This allows text, a picture, or another color to show and is a way to blend your photos into the slide background seamlessly.
- First open PowerPoint and go to the slide with the image you want to apply a transparent background.
- Select the image. A new tab, Picture Tools Format, is added to PowerPoint.
- Go to Picture Tools Format and select Remove Background.
Note: In PowerPoint for Mac, go to Picture Format and then choose Remove Background.
- To customize which areas of the picture are kept and which are made transparent, choose either Mark Areas to Keep or Mark Areas to Remove to designate parts of the photo that should remain or be deleted. Then, draw a line around the area on the picture.
Note: In PowerPoint for Mac, use What to keep or remove.
- Select Keep Changes to apply the edits.
How to Make a single color Transparent?
Here is another way to make a solid color in the image transparent. Here is an example, you can make a white background see-through.
- Select the image and go to Picture Tools Format. Mac users need to select Picture Format.
Note: In Mac 2011, it’s called Format Picture.
- Select Color to display a list of color variations and choose Set Transparent Color.
- Select an area of the picture that is the color you want to make transparent.
Note: Mac 2011 users must choose Recolor first, and then Set Transparent Color.
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