Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Remove Background from Images in PowerPoint tutorial”.
In this article tutorial, I’m going to show you how to take out unwanted backgrounds from images that you get from the Internet, let’s say from Google’s image search, for example, and I’m going to show you how to do that using PowerPoint. So let’s look at some examples. I’M going to go to Google and I’m going to select images, so I’m searching just for images and let’s say I want to have a picture of a car now by default. When you search for something in Google Images, it just gives you everything.
It gives you all the images out there, but in this case I would like the image to be something that I can use without worrying too much about things like copyright. So I’m going to click here on search tools, I’m going to click on usage rights and I’m going to choose labeled for reuse with modification. So I have the right to reuse this and modify it. I’M going to click on that and then I can just browse down and look at the different car images that I can use without too much worry. So I’m going to click on this, this one. That’S the one I’d like to use and I’m going to click View image. This gives me the biggest highest quality version of the picture. Now I can right click and choose save picture as and then I could save it to my desktop and then I could go to PowerPoint and insert the image from the desktop. But it’s really even faster just to right-click and choose copy, and then I can jump into PowerPoint and I can click and then do ctrl or command V or you could just right click paste. So there’s there’s my wonderful image of this car that I got from the Google images page. So this is nice, but there is a little problem and just so that you can see it more fully. I’M going to go over to the design tab and I’m going to choose a design for my PowerPoint, so you can see.
Not only did I get the car, but I got this white rectangle behind the car and to me that doesn’t ruin the picture. I could use it very successfully this way, but sometimes it’s even better to get rid of that rectangle behind the car or whatever the picture is that you’re working with so PowerPoint makes it very easy to do this to get rid of the white rectangle. All you have to do is click and make sure that you’ve selected the picture that you want to effect.
Then up at the top of the screen, you need to click on the format tab. Now, I’m showing you this video in Microsoft, Office, 2013 or PowerPoint 2013. If you have a different version of PowerPoint it, this option should still be available, especially if it’s a modern version of PowerPoint, 2007 and newer, so just make sure you’ve got this format tab and that format tab will disappear and not be there unless you have clicked On the image there, it is make sure it’s clicked on now. All you have to do is go over here to color and go down to them almost to the bottom, where it says set transparent color. Now, if I click on white, you can see what happens. Everything that’s that exact color of white disappears and I’m left with pretty much just the image of the car, so that worked out really well now, if I mean to use this image just in PowerPoint, I’m done at this point, I could right click copy it move It wherever I need it put it, but I’m pretty much done if you wanted this to be in another program or let’s say in an email or something like that, there’s one more step you need to take, and that is you can right-click on the car and Choose copy and then I can go to word or wherever and then right-click and choose paste now in this case it pasted it behind the picture that I already had in Microsoft. Word couple of things: I need to do to fix that number one. I should right.
Click on it, you can, I can see just the very bottom of the tire down there, so I should click on it, right, click and choose wrap text in front of text and that in this case that brought it forward all the way, and I’m also able To move it around it kind of unlocked the image. Sometimes it may not put it automatically in front of the image, but it will unlock it for you. So again, the steps for doing that are to right-click, choose wrap text and I, like in front of text. That’S what works best for me usually so now you can see.
I can look through the window of the car and see the stop sign. In the background. I can see the buildings, so that’s a really cool nice effect. Please subscribe to my youtube channel to get more videos about technology in the classroom. .