PowerPoint Crop to Irregular SAhape

If you want to extract a part of an image you can use the Remove Background tool in recent windows versions of PowerPoint. However, some people find this hard to use. Here's another way.

Look At This Example

I want to cut out the earing box.

Step One

Use any of the freeform tools to draw around the box and create a shape exactly the same size and shape.

Important

Click on a blank area to deselect the new shape.

Select the image (not the new shape) and then SHIFT click the new shape to select both.

Now go to Drawing Tools > Format > Merge Shapes and select INTERSECT

You should get this: