'Borderless' images still have a 1-pixel border... can I fix this?

Aug 30, 2011

Michael Braden
By Michael Braden

Hi there -- even when I use the 'None' border option for inserting images, there is still a faint outline around my image, despite the fact that I have matched the background colors exactly... you can see it in the snip below, the faint box around the two "snapshot" image... that's the border around the image file I inserted, and I can't seem to get rid of it so the image background can blend seamlessly into the slide background...

Is there any way to fix this, or is it impossible to have a truly borderless image?

thanks!

mike

7 Replies
Michael Braden
over 12 years ago08/30/11 at 8:11 am (UTC)

Hi Brian -- thanks for the reply.  Yep, I've selected 'None' in the Media Border property.

What looks to be happening is that even with the 'None' option, Engage is still anti-aliasing the edge of the image, so there's 2 pixels of 2 different lighter gray colors, all the way around.  Which is annoying because I've verified (using an eyedropper app) that my image itself doesn't have any blending or anti-aliasing around the edge.

If the slide background color and the image background color are identical, shouldn't the 'None' media border option provide a seamless edge?  Frustrating!

Michael Braden
over 12 years ago08/30/11 at 8:37 am (UTC)

It says 32-bit, actually...

What I do is import a JPG into a PowerPoint slide with the appropriate background color, apply a few Picture Effects (e.g., perspective, picture frame, etc.), then grab a PNG 'snip' of the full image (including effects) using the Snipping Tool.  That's what I upload into Engage.

(I may just need to make my Tab background and image background white instead of a color.... that seems to bypass the problem...)

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