Adding a large image to a PowerPoint slide is not a difficult task if you know what to do. Follow the four solutions here to get going.

So, open the PowerPoint slide and insert a shape into the slide. Once you insert a shape in your document, a Shape Format tab will appear on the menu bar with tools to format your shapes.

Click the Format tab when Picture Tools appears, and several new groups appear, including Adjust, Picture Styles, Arrange and Size, which let you edit and format the picture.

The cropping tools of Powerpoint 2010 can help you to cut and remove unwanted portions of your images. You can remove or hide part of an image, simply by reducing the horizontal and vertical edges.

When you need a representation rather than the real deal, try this easy technique for creating a silhouette in PowerPoint.

PowerPoint packs a few tools that allow you to edit images. This is how to remove backgrounds from pictures in PowerPoint.

If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a custom-shaped picture placeholder and make it available to the presentation via a layout slide.