I recently discovered loads of awesome image editing tools on PowerPoint, so I've made a how-to presentation to show them off!

1. An Intro To
Image Editing
With PowerPoint
Hidden Gems

2. What felt like an Einstein moment
After years of thinking my Photoshop-less mac was useless at any sort of image editing, I
made a rather exciting discovery yesterday, while using PowerPoint no less!
I had the task of cutting individual countries out of a world map image, and was so
startled by the ease of which I did it I thought it would be rude not to share the
knowledge.
I used Office 2011 for Mac, it also works on PC’s with Office 2010 but the layout is slightly
different, and I’ve since noticed this is also possible in Word.

3. First, insert your image onto a slide, click it and click the format picture tab, then crop it
down to the size you would like using the crop tool.

4. Next click on the image and click the Remove Background button

5. This prompts this lovely purple background to spring into action, which represents the bits
you will be cutting out.

6. On a Mac use your mouse to draw lines in the areas within this box that you
would also like to exclude from the foreground image, making sure there is a
– sign by your mouse pointer and not the + sign.
On a PC there is the option to select ‘include this’ or ‘exclude this’ boxes in
the formatting bar, then click the bits of the picture you want to
include/exclude.
You can then reduce the size of the inner box until it is just outside the image you want to be left
with.

7. Once you’re happy, click the remove background button again and voila, Africa with
holes!

8. Check out how it looks with China

9. Then simply save the image and you can export it wherever you fancy.
Once I’d discovered this tool it prompted me to look for other ways PowerPoint could make image
editing easier.

10. Next I checked out the ‘Filters’, which are called ‘Artistic Effects’ on the PC version.

11. These were great and provided me with lots of fun options.

12. Then it was time to play with the ‘Recolor’ options, called ‘Color’ on PC.

13. As you can see the amount off different effects is great, giving you the chance to change
pictures to reflect all sorts of different vibes.

14. Next I made my way left along the panel to the ‘Corrections’ option, slightly less exciting
than the others but useful nonetheless.

16. So as you can see PowerPoint provides quick and easy free image
editing capabilities that can improve the presentations you create.
You could also use it to edit images for posting on social media, using
in blog posts, or even on your website.