How to make modern picture design in PowerPoint slide

• PowerPoint
• 2016

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 in the slide – rectangle and triangle:

    1.1.1.    On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, select Shapes:

    1.1.2.    In the Shapes list, from the Rectangles group, select and add to the slide the Rectangle shape:

    1.1.3.    In the Shapes list, from the Basic Shapes group, select and add to the slide the Right Triangle shape:

    1.2.    To create the central or right shape, you can add parallelogram shape and then flip it vertical:

    1.2.1.    In the Shapes list, from the Basic Shapes group, select and add to the slide the Parallelogram shape:

    1.2.2.    To flip 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:

  
• Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Arrange group, choose the Rotate dropdown list, and then click Flip Vertical:
  

After flipping the shapes, modify them like you want:

    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 every of these objects.

    2.2.    Do one of the following:

• On the Home tab, in the Drawing group, select the Arrange drop-down list, and then click the Group command:
  
• Under Drawing Tools, on the Format tab, in the Arrange group, click the Group command:
  
• Right-click one of the objects and choose Group -> Group from the popup menu:
  

PowerPoint puts a single box around the objects instead of a separate box around each object:

    3.    Right-click on the grouped shapes and then choose Format Shape... in the popup menu:

    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 File... button and then choose the picture you prefer:
  
• In the Line section, select No line:
  

Add any other adjustments you would like.