Changing a picture background to transparent in word 2013
How do you change the background of a picture to transparent in word 2013? I have tried using the remove background button under the picture format tool but that did not work. i also tried several other options in the picture format toolbar and i was unsuccessful.
3 Answers
The office "remove background" tool is only good if the background is a very big contrast to the object. Is it possible to remake the image with a different background?
Otherwise you may want to look into third party software like Photoshop or Gimp. Gimp is the free option by the way. If these options don't seem to work for you then could you upload the image for us to see?
The best way is to convert it to a GIF and make the background transparent. Depending on the picture, this might be really easy or really difficult. For a free webapp that I've found handy in the past for this type of thing, try .
- Increase the zoom percent so that you can see the graphic. Tap or click the color button (picture tools format tab[ adjust group) to display color gallery.
- Tap or click 'set transparent color' in the color gallery to display a pen pointer in the window.
- Tap or click the location in the graphic where you want to make the color transparent. -- If you make the wrong color transparent -- tap or click the undo button or press CTRL+Z and repeat these steps.
