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Copycat2@
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May 12, 2020
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How to cut out subject and save an image as just the subject with no background.

Having trouble figuring out how to not only cut out a subject and remove the background but also saving that subject as an individual image so I can add that to a powerpoint slide. Does anyone have any ideas?

Srishti_Bali
Srishti_BaliCorrect answer
Legend
July 31, 2025

Hi @emma_8869

 

All the ideas shared above are great — you can go with any of them based on your comfort level. But I agree that background removal is the simplest and fastest way. Here are a few tutorials as well:

 

Once you're done removing the background, just export the file as a PNG, and you’re all set to use it in PowerPoint without any background.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Regards,

Srishti

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emma_8869
Participant
July 29, 2025

The best way I've found is to remove the background, then Image > Trim... Make sure it's selected based on transparent pixels, and select top, left, bottom, and right. It won't get you a perfect sticker of the subject, but it'll get pretty close.

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Srishti_Bali
Srishti_BaliCorrect answer
Legend
July 31, 2025

Hi @emma_8869

 

All the ideas shared above are great — you can go with any of them based on your comfort level. But I agree that background removal is the simplest and fastest way. Here are a few tutorials as well:

 

Once you're done removing the background, just export the file as a PNG, and you’re all set to use it in PowerPoint without any background.

 

Hope that helps!

 

Regards,

Srishti

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Derek Cross
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Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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May 14, 2020

Assuming you have a recent version of Photoshop use the brilliant Select > Subject facility then having made the selection, which you can fine tune apply a Layer Mask and add your background, which can be another image or another Layer with a plain colour fill. Make the Background layer a Normal layer by clicking on it, so that you can put your new layer below the cutout layer. As JJ states there are a number of step-by-step tutorials on the web.

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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May 13, 2020

Layer masking works best.  There are many tutorials on the web.

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