How to make an oval picture

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I'm in the process of making a annual family calendar for Christmas. Last year, I made some of the pictures oval shaped and I've forgotton how I did it. I know I started by inserting the picture into my slide and then using the oval tool to select the part of the picture I wanted to use, but I don't know what to do after that. I know there is a way to use the whole picture using the "fill effects" but I know I did it another way. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, or am I losing my mind

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Annette
 
First, create the oval.

Second, use the fill background with picture.

What version of PowerPoint are you using, so we can give you better
instructions?

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Annette said:
Hi,

I'm in the process of making a annual family calendar for Christmas. Last
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year, I made some of the pictures oval shaped and I've forgotton how I did
it. I know I started by inserting the picture into my slide and then using
the oval tool to select the part of the picture I wanted to use, but I don't
know what to do after that. I know there is a way to use the whole picture
using the "fill effects" but I know I did it another way. Does anyone know
what I'm talking about, or am I losing my mind?
 
Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I think I know how to do it using the fill background, but I was thinking there was a way to select a portion of a picture and make that portion an oval.

Thanks,
Annette
 
Doing it the way you want to do it, you will have to do this outside of
PowerPoint using a Paint Program, and then bring you oval image into PowerPoint

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I think I know how to do it using the fill background,
but I was thinking there was a way to select a portion of a picture and make
that portion an oval.

Thanks,
Annette
 
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Hello Annette,

PowerPoint for Windows doesn't provide the functionality that you are
looking, but PowerPoint for Macintosh (2001 and X) do provide a cutout tool
that will do this.

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