You can make a picture transparent in your PowerPoint slides so that you can add text over it or use it as a background.

To make an image transparent in PowerPoint, you have to change the opacity of the image - and you can do it for the whole image or a part.

If you want to write or edit the alt text of images in your PowerPoint presentation, here's how to do it, using PowerPoint on Mac or PC.

PowerPoint doesn't offer a built-in setting for transparent text, but that doesn't mean it can't be done. And you might be surprised just how easy it is to achieve.

Learn how to set a picture as a background on PowerPoint. You can put or copy any image as a slide background in PowerPoint using this guide.