Cropping, Copying, and Pasting into PowerPoint

[ericc92190181]

In Photoshop Element 18 how do you use the Auto Selection tool to crop the background away from a picture, and then copy and paste just the cropped picture (no background) into a PowerPoint presentation?

[Trevor.Dennis]

Moving to Elements forum.

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

After you have your selection from the Auto Selection Tool

1. go to Layer>New>Layer Via Copy (Ctrl or Cmd+J)

2. go to Select>All

3. go to Edit>Copy

4. go to File>New>Blank File and click OK

5. then File>Save As>PNG

6. in PowerPoint go to Insert>Picture

   (select the png you saved)

If you try to copy/paste an image into PowerPoint you will end up with the background so that's the reason for saving the image and using insert picture.

[ericc92190181]

Thanks Jeff, your advice was very helpful; especially saving the file as a

PNG and not a JPEG. -- Eric