MS PowerPoint Picture Tools
Format Ribbon
(Click on the section of the toolbar
you want to know more about)
Click on this icon to return to this menu slide
Remove Background Tool
• This tool allow you to isolate a part of an
image, making selected parts invisible.
1. Double-click on the image
6. Resize your image to suit
your needs.
2. Click on the Remove
Background tool
5. Use the tools from Step 3 to drag
across the areas you want to keep or
hide. Click on Keep Changes.
3. This toolbar will appear. The tools
allow you to drag lines across areas
to keep or hide
4. To start out with, your image will look
like this. The purple coloring indicates
what parts of the image will be invisible.
Corrections, Color and
Artistic Effects
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Corrections: allows you to adjust sharpness,
brightness and contrast
Color: allows you to adjust the saturation and tone,
along with recoloring the background
Artistic Effects: allows you to allow your image to
look like a painting or a sketch
Compress Pictures, Change
and Reset Picture
This tool allows you to undo all the
changes you’ve made to an image,
returning it to it’s original look and
size. Note: this tool will not work if
you have used the Compress Image
tool.
This tool allows you to shrink
the size of your PowerPoint file
so you are able to e-mail it to
someone or fit it onto a small
memory stick.
Altered Image
This tool allows swap the picture
already there with another one
without having to delete it first.
Original Image
Picture Styles
The Picture Styles tool allows you to easily preview and select preset borders,
effects and layouts. Just click on the down facing arrow (see red arrow above)
for the menu to appear.
Picture Border, Picture Effects
and Picture Layout
This tool allows you to
put different colored
borders of varied
styles and thicknesses
around your images.
Use this with
discretion.
Just because you can,
doesn’t mean you
should.
This tool
allows you to
change the
“look” of your
image,
including angle
and borders.
This tool allows you to insert your
images into a SmartArt diagram.
Bring Forward, Send Backward
and Selection Pane
These tools allow you to put
images, text and other object on
your slide in front of or behind
each other in the order you
desire. Bring Forward and Send
Backward (above) are the quick
and simple tools. For more
advanced control, click on the
Selection Pane tool (right)
instead.
Align, Group and Rotate
This tool allows you to
group two or more
objects (text, images,
etc.) into one – easily
moveable) object.
This tool allows you to easily
arrange your images onto your
slide and space them evenly.
This tool allows you to quickly
and easily change the direction
and orientation of an image.
Note it also works for text.
Crop
You can also crop an image into
a shape. Again, just because you
can, doesn’t mean you should!
Original
During crop
After crop
A simple crop allows you to hide
the parts of an image you do not
want or need.
Click on the image. Click on the
Crop tool and choose Crop.
Hover your cursor over the side
or corner handles. When the
cursor takes the shape of the
handle, click and drag inward.
When you are satisfied, click
outside the slide to keep the
crop. Do not move the image
while it is in crop mode.
Example
Size (Height & Width)
• This tool allows you to quickly and accurately
resize your image or text box to a desired
size.
• If you change either the height or width, the
other dimension changes automatically, so
that your image is always proportional.
• This tool is especially useful if you have two
or more images that you would like to be
exactly the same height or width.
• It is also useful if you import an image that is
extremely large to start with. You can resize
it to a more manageable size easily by typing
in a smaller dimension (such as 3”).