Wouldn't it be cool to have an animated picture frame in your PowerPoint presentation? We explain how to create an animated picture frame.

To make an image transparent in PowerPoint, you have to change the opacity of the image - and you can do it for the whole image or a part.

You can make a picture transparent in your PowerPoint slides so that you can add text over it or use it as a background.

If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you're going to love the new layout placeholders in PowerPoint 2007 and later.

How to Create a PowerPoint Template With a Subdued Picture. Presentation expert Garr Reynolds says "backgrounds should be simple without lots of perceptible differences among the background image ...

For the most part, the graphics you add to a slide should be specific–in purpose and in content. Pictures are seldom so well-honed. That’s why PowerPoint’s Crop tool might become one of your ...

One of the interesting but not so obvious things that you can do with an image in PowerPoint is to animate it as a slide background. While it’s not a good idea to add a lot of animations to your ...