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Author Topic: How to save the background transparent for PowerPoint presentation  (Read 7,978 times)

masu

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Hello,

How can I save the background of a screenshot as transparent for a powerpoint presentation?
The image format should be in lossless PNG
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Re: How to save the background transparent for PowerPoint presentation
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2006, 10:56 AM »
can you be a little more specific about what you mean by "background"?

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Re: How to save the background transparent for PowerPoint presentation
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2006, 11:02 AM »
e.g. I use a 3d CAD program. The background is blue, the model is on the foreground.

blue should be replaced by transparent colour.
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Re: How to save the background transparent for PowerPoint presentation
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2006, 11:56 AM »
while i could add such features to screenshot captor, the easiest and most flexible approach is to configure a graphics program (like paint.net) to launch from screenshot captor and use that to make regions transparent.

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Re: How to save the background transparent for PowerPoint presentation
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2006, 03:32 PM »
thanks for your info.
but maybe this could also be possible with Screenshot Captor. ;)
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