PowerPoint presentations with custom colored backgrounds benefit from artwork saved and imported as transparent . png files. … PNG files work in place of traditional JPG files to eliminate rectangular borders around your imported graphics, because the PNG files have an alpha transparency layer.
Can you put PNG in PowerPoint?
To begin, click on the INSERT PowerPoint Ribbon and then click on the PICTURE icon (see Figure 1). When the INSERT PICTURE window opens (see Figure 2), locate the PNG file you want to insert into PowerPoint and click the INSERT button. You have now inserted your PNG file into PowerPoint.
How do I make a PNG transparent in PowerPoint?
Method 1 for making a picture transparent
- Insert your picture and selected it.
- Go to the Picture Format tab > Colors.
- In the drop-down menu, select the option Set Transparent Color.
- Now all you have to do is click on the color you want gone! PowerPoint will immediately make all that same color transparent.