You can use the cropping and compressing tools in PowerPoint to adjust the size and shape of your images.

Cropping allows you to remove unwanted parts of an image such as the edges or any irrelevant details.

To do this, select your image, and then you can either click on the dropdown for crop or use the shortcut alt + J + P + V.

From there, you can resize and crop your image how you'd like.

In this image, we're highlighting the circles around the image, which allow you to resize the image and the lines around the image allow you to crop the image.

You can also use the crop to shape button to crop your image into a specific shape.

In the example shown we've used the diagonal corners crop Compressing allows you to reduce the file size of your images, which can improve the performance and loading speed of your presentation.

You can use the compressed pictures button to choose from different resolution options such as print, screen or email, and apply them to selected images or all images in your presentation.

You can also delete cropped areas of your images to remove sections of cropped images that are increasing the file size of your presentation.

Bear in mind though that once these cropped areas are deleted, it is permanent cropping and compressing can help you optimize your images and make your presentation more efficient and effective.

We're going to run through an example of using the cropping and compressing tool.

So what we're going to do first is we're going to click on the image and obviously you can see that picture format has appeared at the top in the ribbon.

What we will do is push Alt JP to get us across to picture formats.

And then V as you can see, we've got crop, which is just by pushing C, or we've got crop to shape, which is S.

And so what we're gonna just do first is crop to shape, and we're just going to put on a couple of these diagonal sides.

So there we go. That's looking nice.

The final thing we're just going to quickly look at is coming back here.

If you then click back onto crop, obviously you can see part of the image is still retained when we crop.

And so this is why the compressing tool is a really good feature to use when you are cropping images.

And so let's compress this image.

If we go to picture formats, obviously up here in the ribbon, we've got compress pictures, so click on your image, press compress pictures.

And as covered in the video, we've got a couple of options here where you can apply it to just this image or obviously apply it to all of the images in your presentation.

So we're gonna just have it applied to this one and what we want this one ticked here, delete cropped areas of the picture.

So it's going to remove these little areas here that we don't need anymore because that's wasting file size.

And we can also change the resolution.

So at the moment we've got high fidelity, so this is preserving the quality of the original picture.

We don't always need that.

So we could reduce it to 300 DPI if we're still presenting on screens, or we can reduce it even further.