3/10/2023 0 Comments Text and photo shaperMake a fixed image by taking a screen shot. You won’t have to go though the whole ‘Save as Picture…’ process again just pick up where you left off. The image & mask pair can be revisited to make changes.The fixed image can be resized etc without affecting the source image & mask combo.The fixed image is also smaller, if that’s a concern. That’s an extra worry for collaborated documents. A fixed image is less likely to be accidently changed or moved.Use that image in your document, sheet or slide. Instead make a fixed image of your masked image. It might be tempting to make your shape with image fill and leave it at that.ĭon’t do it! You’ve done a lot of work to make that custom picture with mask, don’t throw it away. Here’s an animation that shows a little of what’s possible by moving or resizing both the shape and underlying image. Here we’ve sized and moved both pictures around, so the people and helicopter are in view. If necessary, click on the picture and resize as necessary. The Shape (now image) can be resized and moved to show exactly what you want. The kind of control not available with ‘Crop to Shape’ or Shape Fill with Picture’ options. There’s full control over the positioning and size of both the underlying picture and shape. This is where all the preparation pays off. Now drag the shape/picture over the image you want to mask. That’s why we recommended a fill color similar to the colors in the picture you’ll be masking. Next, change the picture layout to ‘In front of text’.Īs you can see, even with no shape outline, some of the fill color remains around the edges. Transparency Color problem and fix for Microsoft Office In front of text Use the Eyedropper pointer to select the shape fill color and make it transparent. (don’t choose the nearby ‘Transparency’ option, which applies to the entire image). Go to Picture Format | Adjust | Color | Set Transparent Color. ‘Set Transparent Color’ changes a selected color in the image into a transparent area. The reason for converting to a picture is to get Office’s ‘Set Transparent Color’ option, which is only available for images, not shapes. Insert the picture you just made, back into the document or slide. That converts the transparent surround of the shape into plain white color. Do that is saving to a non-transparent format. We need a truly white color around the shape. It looks white because the doc/slide background is usually white. Why? The surround of a shape is transparent. It’s VITAL to select an image format that does NOT support transparency. Larger dimensions for the image give you more resizing options later without losing quality. That will save the shape as an image on your computer. Make the shape large (larger than you’ll need in the final masked image), right-click and choose Save as Picture. The outline color will be visible in the final result, but the fill color (mostly) will not. Use a very different color to the fill so Office can easily tell the difference between the fill (to become transparent) and the outline you want to keep.Ĭhoose the Outline and color first then a much different fill color. That’s so faint that it all but disappears when converted to Transparent.Ĭhoose an outline for the shape, if you wish. OR: Use the Shape Fill color: White, Background 1, Darker 5% (just below full white on the color selector. Here’s the light-blue colored shape (left) compared to the picture we’ll be masking (right). The edge that’s left will (hopefully) not show on the masked image. A faint color because Office’s ‘Set Transparent Color’ doesn’t completely convert the shape to transparency. Insert a Shape with a faint solid fill color that will blend with the picture you’ll be masking. Office 365/2019 Icons or other SVG graphic can also be used.Įdit options for SVG Icons in Office 365/2019 Fill Color and Outline Start by inserting a shape Insert | Illustrations | Shapes where you’ll see the same/similar choices that are in Crop to Shape. There’s a few tricks and traps along the way … Make a Shape or Icon Finally overlay the shape/picture on the image you want to mask. In short: convert a shape to picture, then use ‘Set Transparent Color’ to make part of the shape transparent. This method has more steps but lets you move the picture and shape around to get exactly the look you want. We’ve already explained two simple ways to crop a photo to a shape or fill a shape with some options to move and resize each element. Here’s how to mask a photo with any Microsoft Office shape or icon and do it with full control over what appears from the original image.
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