PowerPoint 2010: Remove Background

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(Note: We first published this post in 2010, but since then so many of you have looked it up that we thought we'd share it with you again.)

As we noted in the last post about inserting a screenshot, a lot of the work for Office 2010 has been about improving workflow for image insertion and editing.

I’m going to show you how to use the new Remove Background tool on pictures to make a slide like this:

The Remove Background button will isolate the foreground object in an image and remove the background elements. Here’s the original image of my skateboard:

If you click the “Remove Background” button on the Picture Tools Format tab, you’ll enter the Background Removal contextual tab:

You’ll also see that PowerPoint makes an initial guess about what to remove. In many cases this will be the end of the story, so you can just click “Keep Changes” and move on:

                         

This all depends on the characteristics of the picture and which object you are trying to isolate. When the guess is incorrect, there are a couple of quick steps you can take to get the result you want. First, drag the rectangle to fit around the object you want:

Then, click the “Mark Areas to Remove” button and draw lines over the unwanted areas, such as the wood floor. If part of the object you want is under the purple mask, then use the “Mark Areas to Keep” to make sure they aren’t removed accidentally:

In a couple minutes you’ll have just the areas you want, and everything else in the image will become transparent. As a final step, you may wish to use the crop tool to remove transparent areas so that the bounding box fits tightly around the object. Since it’s just a picture, you can apply effects, rotation, and scale just as you would to any other picture in PowerPoint (notice how the shadows project only from the isolated skateboards):

This is a very powerful tool that opens the doors to a whole new realm of creativity. You’ll be pleased to find it in other Office apps such as Word, Excel and Outlook. Have fun.

-Christopher Maloney

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How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player - working tutorial to remove your PC of Adobe Flash Player.

The Adobe Flash Player program is an important component of the Adobe Systems Group which focuses on the creation of multimedia software. Adobe has created popular programs such as Dreamweaver and Photoshop that was greatly helpful in improving the quality of images and photos. But as soon as users attempt to delete this application of the computer, many problems may occur. Some files that come with the program may be damaged or corrupted, will therefore very likely be left in your system because they can not be uninstalled correctly.

How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player.

There are two different ways to uninstall Adobe Flash Player, and it is the manual method or the automatic technique.

To manually remove the program, you must follow these steps:

Select "Start", click "Control Panel".
After the charge control panel, go to "Add & remove programs" or "uninstall a program" If your system is Windows Vista & 7.
This process will allow the applet add & remove programs appear.
From there, choose the program which must be deleted by the count of the list.
Proceed by clicking "delete". Instructions will be displayed on your screen and you will need to follow the specified actions to remove the program that you have selected to remove.
Using the program add & remove by removing applications does not fully take the program.

Some files will be lefttentIME, called "remnants of files". These files must be deleted from your computer by pressing "Start" and then find "my computer". Then, you need to select "C:\Program files\" and then find the remains of files. After you locate the files, click the folder and hit the keys "SHIFT + DELETE" on your keyboard. Restart your computer to complete the process.

Method of automatic deletion (recommended)

For people who are not computer knowledgeable and who think that the manual process is complicated, then this second method may be a good option. In fact, automatic method is one that is strongly suggested, so that you can use as it will remove not only the program, as in the case of Adobe Flash Player, but also completely remove all components and other programs of leftovers from your system. With this method, an automated tool is used; software more trustworthy for this method is the "Final uninstaller program. To use this tool, you can start by download final uninstaller. You must install on your computer and then clicking "Scan". A list of programs will be displayed and you must choose "Adobe Flash player". Check the box on the left side and select "Clean". Once the measures are carried out correctly, Adobe Flash Player will be removed from your PC.

The last but very important step is to clean the registry. The registry is a huge database where all the vital files, settings & options and the information is stored - including the remnants of files that may have been left if you used the manual method. ThetentIME registry is damaged, corrupted or infected, causing Windows to be unable to read the necessary files, it must function effectively. Problems and errors occur. To prevent this from occurring you can download and run a registry cleanup tool. In this way, you can be sure to resolve all the problems and errors on your computer and to avoid future issues.

You can Uninstall Adobe Flash from your PC using the tutorial and tools on our Web site. You can click here to remove Adobe Flash Player for your PC for good.