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Creating transparent areas in a picture

You can create transparent areas in a picture that you insert into a page. This is useful for removing the picture’s background. You can make any colour in the picture transparent.

Note

You can reduce the size of a large picture when you insert it in a file (see Setting image optimisation preferences). If you later create a transparent area in the picture, the picture is no longer optimised.

To create a transparent area in a picture