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 color in the picture transparent.
Note
You can reduce the size of a large picture when you insert it in a file (see Reducing file sizes). If you later create a transparent area in the picture, the picture is no longer optimized.
To create a transparent area in a picture
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Select the picture.
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Press the picture’s menu arrow, and then select .
The Picture Transparency dialog box appears.
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Press any areas in the picture that you want to make transparent.
Note
Pressing an area makes only that area transparent, even if the picture includes that same color in other areas.
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Press OK.