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Reply Thu 7 Jul 2011, 16:33Delegate Lucia said...

Lucia has attended:
Powerpoint Intermediate Advanced course

Pictures

How to set the picture colourn transparent?

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Reply Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:30Trainer Rodney said...

RE: Pictures

Hello Lucia,

Hope you enjoyed your Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Intermediate/Advanced course with Best STL.

Thank you for your question regarding changing the transparency of a picture.

There are two possible ways of doing this:

1) First select the picture... then select the Format ribbon on the Picture Tools contextual tab. In the Picture Styles group click the Picture Effects option and from the Presets section select Preset 8. You can create further changes in the 3D Options section.

2) Select the picture... then select the Format ribbon on the Picture Tools contextual tab. In the Adjust group click Recolor then Set Transparency colour. Clicking a colour on your picture will then remove that colour. You may have to click a number of times in different areas to create the effect you are looking for.

I hope this resolves your question. If it has, please mark this question as resolved.

If you require further assistance, please reply to this post. Or perhaps you have another Microsoft Office question?

Have a great day.
Regards,

Rodney
Microsoft Office Specialist Trainer

Reply Fri 8 Jul 2011, 11:31Trainer Stephen said...

RE: Pictures

Hi Lucia

Thanks for your question

The following procedure will achieve this

1. select the picture
2. Go to Format - Adjust - recolor
3. Choose set transparent colour
4. Click on the picture

Hope this helps

Regards

Stephen

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In PowerPoint, images often take up a lot of space which can lead to difficulties when it comes to emailing files. Luckily PowerPoint does contain some tools to help deal with this issue.

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2. PowerPoint has an inbuilt compression tool, which is located on the Picture Toolbar.

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