From the course: PowerPoint 2016 Essential Training
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Cropping a picture to a shape
From the course: PowerPoint 2016 Essential Training
Cropping a picture to a shape
- You may find your presentation could use more themeing, or a basic pattern or a color fill is just too bland. You can actually take a custom picture you have and crop it to a particular shape to fit your design needs. I'm going to show you what that means in action. Remember these Section Header slides we created. These are the ones that serve as a visual notification to let the audience know that a new topic is coming. Above all else, I want to reinforce the fact that we are in fact a hotel. So let's add a picture to all these slides. Because I have many Section Headers here we're going to edit the Slide Master directly. I'll change to the View Ribbon tab and click Slide Master. Now we need to find that Section Header slide. If I hover my mouse over it it's going to tell me so I can make sure I'm editing the right one. Here we have the Section Header Layout and I can see how many slides it's used for, so I know this is the right one. The next step is to insert my image. I'll click…
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