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Crop images to shapes

Crop images to shapes

- [Instructor] You can crop an image to a shape. Right now, this slide has two competing images on it. I'd like the focus to be on this image here on the left, but I still want this in the background in some way. I can crop it to a neat design. With the image selected, I can hover my mouse over the crop image. You can see the toolbar icon here, but if I click on the arrow to the right of it that says mask image, these are all the shapes and callouts and arrows, but I can crop the image too. I'll choose a neat shape that's good for a tech company. Maybe this arrow here. I'll select it and my image gets cropped to that shape. This looks pretty good. Now the focus is still clearly on this drone, but I can still include the picture that I liked in here. You can also crop any aspect of a regular image. I'll create a new slide and drop an image in. In this image, I only want the focus to be on the receiver. I don't want the drone in the photo at all. So this time I'm only going to click…

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