How to highlight image area in PowerPoint

01.01.20  •  #PowerPointTips

Contents

Showing a screenshot of a website is a common thing to do in PowerPoint presentations nowadays. However, most of the time you want to draw the attention of the audience only to certain areas of the image. A good practice is to darken the image as a whole and only highlight the areas you want your attendees to focus on. In this week's PowerPoint tip video we give you a step by step guide on how to achieve this effect without Photoshop or any image editing skills!


Related articles

How to mask images to crop to shape in PowerPoint How to embed fonts in PowerPoint (2010, 2013, 2016, 2019)

About the author

Daniel Amerbauer

Daniel is the Co-founder and CEO of SlideLizard. Perfectionist by nature, but also a passionate designer and developer.


Top blog articles
More posts

PowerPoint Quiz Templates - 10 free Quiz Designs

#PowerPoint #Interaction #Game 08.20.20

Modern mountains - Free PowerPoint Template

#PptTemplate 02.01.19
LIZ AI Produktbild
LIZ AI - Autopilot for PowerPoint

Your existing systems. Automatically orchestrated and centrally connected.

LIZ AI connects directly with your enterprise systems and automatically turns data into presentations. Content is intelligently generated, updated, and visualised directly in PowerPoint. Presentations are created in the background, stay up to date at all times, and automatically match your corporate design - without manual effort.

Learn more about LIZ AI

The Glossary for Presentations & AI

Microlearning

Microlearning delivers educational content in short, focused segments — typically between 3 and 10 minutes. Rather than completing a lengthy course, learners engage with bite-sized units that cover a single concept or skill. Microlearning is effective for knowledge reinforcement, mobile training, and just-in-time learning. It fits naturally into busy workdays and is widely used in corporate onboarding, compliance training, and professional development programs.

Learn more

Closed Questions

Closed questions are questions that can be answered with a limited set of responses — most commonly a simple 'yes' or 'no', or a selection from predefined options. They are used to gather specific, factual information quickly and efficiently. In presentations and training settings, closed questions are useful for gauging audience understanding, confirming agreement, or running quick polls. While efficient, they offer little depth and should be balanced with open-ended questions when richer feedback or discussion is needed.

Learn more

Internal Preview

An internal preview is a brief statement placed at the start of a new section within a presentation that signals what is coming next. It acts as a mini roadmap within the talk, preparing the audience for the upcoming content and helping them follow the structure. Together with internal summaries, internal previews create a strong narrative skeleton that keeps listeners oriented and engaged, even in presentations that cover multiple distinct topics.

Learn more

Chain of Thought

Chain of thought is an AI reasoning technique in which a model explicitly works through intermediate steps before arriving at a final answer. By laying out its reasoning step by step, the model produces more accurate and reliable outputs — especially for complex, multi-part problems. In agentic AI systems, chain-of-thought reasoning is used to plan workflows and make decisions at each stage of an agent loop. For enterprise applications, it increases transparency and makes AI behavior easier to audit.

Learn more