How To Edit and Remove Image Background Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

Microsoft Powerpoint is a nice presentation tool that is mainly being used in the corporate world for presentation. And most times you find out that presenters might be running out of time to be able to showcase some images to support whatever proposal he has in mind. I guess that the reason why Microsoft decided to incorporate an important tool bar in its most recent Microsoft powerpoint of 2010 and 2013 versions. This tab is known as ‘Remove Background’   

Removing Backgrounds Using PowerPoint

I will take a presentation I have and insert any picture right in it.

After inserting the picture, we will go to the Format Picture tab and click on Remove Background.

Notice that PowerPoint makes a good job depending on the picture to recognize the background and paint it in purple.

If your image, like mine, needs a little more editing, you can click on Mark Areas to Remove and select the areas that are still left to being removed in your picture using straight lines, notice how powerpoint mark out areas with same background making the work easier for you.

When you have finally ended selecting/editing your picture, just click on Keep changes and you will notice the background will be entirely removed.

You can now even select a different background for your picture.

This is handy but certainly not as professional as editing with Photoshop, but for a presentation, this could do the trick. So here you go, in case if you are running out of time and need to remove some nasty backgrounds.