How to make modern picture design in PowerPoint slide
This tip is about some tricks for creating some unique designs for pictures.
![Modern picture design in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Modern picture design in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/455/1_365.png)
See also How to create simple picture designs for PowerPoint slides.
To create several shapes with one background picture like shown above, do the following:
1. Create shapes for your picture:
1.1. To create the left shape, you can add two shapes to the slide – a rectangle and a triangle:
1.1.1. On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, select Shapes:
![Shapes in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Shapes in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/powerpoint_button365/shapes.png)
1.1.2. In the Shapes list, from the Rectangles group, select and add to the slide the Rectangle shape:
![Rectangles shapes in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Rectangles shapes in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/shapes365/rectangles.png)
1.1.3. In the Shapes list, from the Basic Shapes group, select and add to the slide the Right Triangle shape:
![Right triangle shape in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Right triangle shape in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/shapes365/right_triangle.png)
1.2. To create the central or right shape, you can add a parallelogram shape and then flip it vertically:
1.2.1. In the Shapes list, from the Basic Shapes group, select and add to the slide the Parallelogram shape:
![Parallelogram shape in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Parallelogram shape in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/shapes365/parallelogram.png)
1.2.2. To flip the selected shape, do one of the following:
- On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, select the Arrange dropdown list:
Choose the Rotate list and then click Flip Vertical:
- On the Shape Format tab, in the Arrange group, choose the Rotate dropdown list, and then click Flip Vertical:
After flipping the shapes, modify them as you want:
![Selected shapes in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Selected shapes in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/455/4.png)
2. To show one picture through all these shapes, just group them:
2.1. To group several objects, select them by pressing Ctrl or Shift and clicking each of these objects.
2.2. Do one of the following:
- On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, select the Arrange dropdown list, then click the Group command:
- On the Shape Format tab, in the Arrange group, click the Group command:
- Right-click on the selection and choose Group -> Group from the popup menu:
PowerPoint puts a single box around the objects instead of a separate box around each object:
![Grouped shapes in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Grouped shapes in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/455/5.png)
3. Right-click on the grouped shapes and then choose Format Shape... in the popup menu:
![Format grouped shape in popup in PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Format grouped shape in popup in PowerPoint 365](/images/tips/powerpoint_button365/format_grouped_shapes.png)
4. On the Format Shape pane, on the Shape Options tab, in the Fill & Line group:
- In the Fill section:
- Choose Picture or texture fill,
- Click on the Insert... button:
- In the Insert Pictures dialog box, choose the picture location, select the picture file, and then click Open or Insert:
- In the Line section, select No line:
Add any other adjustments you would like.
See also this tip in French: Comment faire de la conception d'image moderne dans la diapositive PowerPoint.