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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 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

  1. Select the picture.

  2. Press the picture’s menu arrow, and then select Set Picture Transparency.

    The Picture Transparency dialog box appears.

  3. 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.

  4. Press OK.

Related User Help

Inserting pictures from files

Inserting pictures from a scanner

Working with pictures

Reducing file sizes

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Troubleshooting files