Highlighting part of a picture?

Is there a way to literally highlight part of a picture, for example draw a yellow background across part of a chart to draw attention to it?

If I understand correctly what you want to achieve, it's easy. Place a shape (rectangle, line, whatever) over the area you want to highlight, color it how you want (I usually use yellow), remove the line around the shape, and make the color transparent enough to read through, but opaque enough to be effective. You can even animate the shape, for instance, to appear, or wipe, or whatever, when you get to that part of your presentation when you want to call attention to just that highlighted point.
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