

Select the pre-define strength of the Soft edges effect or customize according to your requirement.Now go to the Picture effects option given under the Format Tab and select the Soft Edges effect.Go to Format Tab -> Select Artistic effects -> Select the Blur effect.Now paste that over the picture and select it.To blur specific part, first, snip that area using the Windows Snipping tool.Insert or paste the image on the slide of Powerpoint.

Here we tell you how to blur the background, text or specific part of an image in Powerpoint 2007, 2010, 2013, or 2016. Many times while creating some slides in Powerpoint, we require to blur out some parts of an image or text and if you don’t know, you can do it directly on powerpoint then you might start struggling with some other tools to achieve that.

These functions are available in almost all recent and older versions of Powerpoint such as PowerPoint 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. Yes, it is not like the Adobe photoshop but things like color correction, background removal, give some artistic effects and do you know, even you can blur the background of a picture in Powerpoint. You can perform some basic image editing too. But now it is not only limited to text-based slides only. Microsoft Powerpoint is a popular and extremely powerful tool for creating presentations slides.
