Contour Shadow in PowerPoint Shapes and Images

In PowerPoint you can use some nice shadow effects on images and shapes, but there is also a chance that you use contour shadows so the shadow can follow exactly the border of an image without counting the background. This can be really helpful for example to give a nice effect to the end slide.

For shapes, it is easy. You just need to pick the right shadow and that’s all. But the tricky part is for images and pictures. If you want to add a contour shadow in PowerPoint pictures then you’d need to remove the background from the shadow. Here is an example. If we have a picture with a white background and want to remove it, we can do it by using the background removal tool in PowerPoint.

Let start adding a picture to the PowerPoint Slide. In this case, we have added a nice business people image with a green background and business woman and man with elegant business postures.

Then we can use the crop tool in PowerPoint to reduce the original image dimensions.

Once you are done cropping the image, you can remove the background from the picture in PowerPoint. We already have seen how to remove the background from a PowerPoint image.

Finally, choose the right shadow to be used as a contour shadow. In this case added a simple drop shadow effect in PowerPoint using a rectangular shape which will work pretty well for the contour shadow.

Using this method, we can create contour images in PowerPoint. You can use any other picture of your choice and create your own contour images.