With Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, or Excel, you can easily change the outline of a photo by turning it into a shape like a circle or a rounded rectangle. The Crop to Shape feature provides options for cropping an image to a specific shape or starting with a shape and then inserting an image within it. More @Wikipedia
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