3. Part #1: Setting up your picture
• 1. Find a picture with good contrast
• The first step in this PowerPoint animation
tutorial is to find a picture that has a nice clean
contrast with the background (you don’t want
your center object to be touching anything or
blending into the background).
• For this example, I’m going to use the picture of
the tower below.
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5. 2. Remove the picture’s background
• With your tower (or other image) selected, in
PowerPoint 2010 or PowerPoint 2013,
navigate to the Picture Tools Format Tab, and
select Remove Background.
7. To remove the background
To remove the background, you want to adjust the frame around the center object of
your picture, in this case the tower. The purple area is what will be removed from the
image; the colored area is what will remain within the image.
Depending on your picture, you might need to use the “Mark Areas to Keep” and
“Mark Areas to Remove” commands to correctly remove the background.
Once the background is all purple, select keep changes.
11. Part #2: Building your reveal
animation framework
• Before we frame the picture, let’s first turn on
the Gridlines within our slide layout. So from
the View Tab, make sure there is a check mark
next to the Gridlines, which appear as dashed
lines crisscrossing the slide.
13. With the rectangle selected, draw a tall and skinny rectangle on the left side of the picture – you can use the Gridlines as guides.With the left
side built, copy and paste or CTRL + SHIFT + DRAG a copy of the rectangle to the right side of the picture, creating the right-side of the frame.