Quick tips to Crop Images in PowerPoint Presentation

Have you ever wondered how to crop images or even use shapes in order to crop images in your PowerPoint presentation?

PowerPoint is a tool with many features!

You don't need to use a different tool or even wait for someone to help you. You can do it on your own.

Here is a quick video for you on how to crop images to shapes and even merge a shape with an image in PowerPoint.

It a quick solution to all your problems!

Transcript

Use the crop tool in PowerPoint to trim and remove unwanted portions of pictures, crop a picture to shape or to merge an image with shape.

Image to Shape

To Crop an image to shape, you need to follow these simple steps below:

1. Select the Picture
2. Go to Picture Format tab
3. Under Crop option, select the drop-down arrow
4. Select Crop to Shape
5. Pick any shape from the list as per your preference

You can also crop to shape more than two images at once by selecting an image and hold the SHIFT key and select the other images in the slide. Then, you need to follow the same steps mentioned above.

Merge the Picture with a Shape

The next part of the video is to merge the picture with shape. For this, you will have to use the Merge Shapes tool in PowerPoint.

1. Select the image
2. Go to Picture Format tab
3. Under Send Backward option, click on the drop-down arrow
4. Select Send to Back
5. Select the shape by holder the shift key
6. Go to Shape Format Tab
7. Under Merge Shape, click on the drop-down arrow
8. Click on Intersect

* Fun Fact the Merge Shapes feature is known as Combine shapes in PowerPoint 2010 version.

 Easy Right?

I hope you like our quick tips video, stay tuned for the upcoming videos!!!