How to Make a Picture Spin on an Axis in PowerPoint. Adding images to your Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentations keeps your audience focused and helps people better understand the presentation.

If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you're going to love the new layout placeholders in PowerPoint 2007 and later.

You can make your image or photo in PowerPoint transparent, have the background removed, or have a combination of color and grayscale.

How to use Pictures as Bullets in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint People can customize their bullets by changing the bullets to other symbols or using a picture as a bullet.

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

If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a custom-shaped picture placeholder and make it available to the presentation via a layout slide.

If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you're going to love the new layout placeholders in PowerPoint 2007 and later.