Need to "crop" photoshop pic in ppt

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elorahd

I have a picture I created in Photoshop that's kind of a blobby shape.
But when I import it as a pic into ppt it creates a rectangular
"background" behind my blobby picture. I'm animating this and wanting
to put it on a multi-colored background, but you can see the white
rectangle outlining my picture and that's definitely not what I want.
Any suggestions on how to remedy this?
 
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John Wilson

Hi

Lucs answer may work if theres not too much white actually in the picture
and the "background " is pure white. The real answer thoughis to go back to
photoshop and do it with background contents set to transparent and save as a
png file. This should give you no visible background.
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elorahd

That's what I figured I'd have to do. But I had already saved it with
a transparent background and it still came up white so I was stuck.
Is there something about a png that's different than a bmp or jpeg?
 
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elorahd

OK, I did that and now the background is black when I import it into
ppt. Do I have to turn on some alpha channel or something before ps
will save a png with transparency?
 
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John Wilson

The probable problem now is that you are not up to date with service packs.
The black background is a problem if you dont have sp3 (XP) Go to help >
check for updates
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Did that answer the question / help?
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John Wilson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist
http://www.technologytrish.co.uk/ppttipshome.html
 
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elorahd

Yikes. I'm assuming to install sp3 you have to have 1 & 2 installed?
Everytime I've tried installing sp2 it's just about eaten my computer
so I decided to stop doing that. Any way around this?
 
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Echo S

elorahd said:
I have a picture I created in Photoshop that's kind of a blobby shape.
But when I import it as a pic into ppt it creates a rectangular
"background" behind my blobby picture. I'm animating this and wanting
to put it on a multi-colored background, but you can see the white
rectangle outlining my picture and that's definitely not what I want.
Any suggestions on how to remedy this?
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It may have to do with your color management profiles in Photoshop.

Transparent areas of graphics turn black
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00627.htm

I've also seen graphics get backgrounds when animated. This is usually due
to color depth settings on the display set to 256. (Haven't seen this happen
for a looooooooooong time, but I thought I'd mention it.) To resolve,
right-click the desktop, choose Properties, and on the Settings tab make
sure you're at at least 16-bit color.
 
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elorahd

The PPTools tutorial worked perfectly. Thank you. Now I have a
different problem. I had a complicated animation going with these
pictures and I'd like not to have to set it up again with the new pics.
Is there a way to tell ppt to replace the old pics with the new ones
or to tell it to apply these animations to the new pics? If it were
just basic animations I would redo them, but I've also got motion paths
applied to them that have to match up exactly.
 

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