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November 12, 2018
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Cropping, Copying, and Pasting into PowerPoint

  • November 12, 2018
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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?

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Correct answer Jeff Arola

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.

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Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 12, 2018

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.

Participant
November 12, 2018

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

PNG and not a JPEG. -- Eric

Trevor.Dennis
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Community Expert
November 12, 2018

Moving to Elements forum.