Quick tip: how to add effects to your photos with Powerpoint

In this post I will share a quick tip that I learned not long ago for adding effects to your photos by using only Powerpoint. I find this technique very practical since it doesn't require any other software than powerpoint, meaning that I can edit photos on almost any machines I work with.



The types of effects that you can apply to your images are basically all the "styles" that Powerpoint offers, like changing colors, adding a border, adding some shadow, adding some 3D effect, etc.. They are very easy to apply and can be customized reasonably well. So let's take an example and see how it works.

Imagine that you have a nice landscape picture to display on your site, on which you want to add a nice border and drop shadow effect. You could choose to work with Photoshop, but it would require quite a few steps and manipulations, let alone the skills to do it. Instead, you can quickly choose a style in Powerpoint like for example here "Metal Frame" and customize your photo instantly.



Once the effect is applied, all you need to do is to right-click and select "save as picture". You can save your photo as a .png file and it will keep the border, the shadow and even the transparency around the shadow.



Your photo is now ready to be used on your website.


photo credit: Werner Kunz via photo pin cc