How to highlight image area in PowerPoint

01.01.20  •  #PowerPointTips

Contents

Showing a screenshot of a website is a common thing to do in PowerPoint presentations nowadays. However, most of the time you want to draw the attention of the audience only to certain areas of the image. A good practice is to darken the image as a whole and only highlight the areas you want your attendees to focus on. In this week's PowerPoint tip video we give you a step by step guide on how to achieve this effect without Photoshop or any image editing skills!


Related articles

How to mask images to crop to shape in PowerPoint How to embed fonts in PowerPoint (2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)

About the author

Daniel Amerbauer

Daniel is the Co-founder and CEO of SlideLizard. Perfectionist by nature, but also a passionate designer and developer.


Top blog articles
More posts

The History and Evolution of PowerPoint

#PPT #History #Versions 04.20.20

Create and insert GIFs in PowerPoint

#PowerPoint #Template 12.07.2022
LIZ AI Produktbild
LIZ AI - Autopilot for PowerPoint

Your existing systems. Automatically orchestrated and centrally connected.

LIZ AI connects directly with your enterprise systems and automatically turns data into presentations. Content is intelligently generated, updated, and visualized directly in PowerPoint. Presentations are created in the background, stay up to date at all times, and automatically match your corporate design - without manual effort.

Learn more about LIZ AI

The Glossary for Presentations & AI

Pitch

A pitch is a short presentation that is given with the intention of persuading someone (a person or company) to buy or invest. There are various forms of pitches, depending on the goal and intended outcome.

Learn more

Distributed Audience

A distributed audience is a group of presentation attendees who are physically located in different places — such as different offices, cities, or countries — and who attend the presentation remotely or from multiple simultaneous locations. Managing a distributed audience requires careful attention to technical setup, timing across time zones, and engagement tools that compensate for the lack of physical presence. Distributed audiences are common in global organizations, virtual events, and multi-site corporate communications.

Learn more

Multi-Agent System

A multi-agent system is a setup in which several autonomous AI agents work together, each handling a specific part of a larger task. The agents can communicate, divide work, and combine their outputs to achieve goals that would be difficult for a single model. Typically, an orchestrator agent coordinates the workflow while specialist agents execute defined subtasks. In enterprise contexts, multi-agent systems allow complex workflows — such as researching a topic, drafting content, checking compliance, and distributing a presentation — to be fully automated.

Learn more

.potm file extension

A .potm file is a macro-enabled PowerPoint template that combines the reusable layout and formatting of a standard template with embedded VBA macros. It allows organizations to distribute presentation templates that include automated functionality — such as auto-populating fields or enforcing formatting rules — while maintaining a consistent visual identity. Like .pptm files, .potm files should be handled carefully due to their macro capabilities.

Learn more