Using Office 2010 Background Removal with Visio

I spotted a blog post the other day about a new feature in Office 2010 that enables you to ‘crop’ a subject out of an image.  The feature is called Background Removal and is part of Excel, PowerPoint and Word 2010:

• The magic of background removal – Office 2010 Engineering

The need for this type of functionality crops up in Visio from time to time and both Chris Roth and I have come up with mask workarounds for this in past:

• Super Mask Visio Clipping Shape – VisGuy.com
• Highlighting images using a mask - visLog