Having to increase image size for clarity

[Jim Erwin]

I'm having a weird issue with PP 2002 that I didn't have with previous
versions.

I do instructional design and use a lot of screen captures. Sometimes
I do them with PaintShop Pro's screen capture tool. Other times I do
them using control-alt-shift-print screen and paste them into
PhotoShop. My resolution is almost always 96 dpi. I think going any
higher is a waste of disk space for images that will be strictly
viewed on-screen.

I'm running into issues with captures looking blurry in PP 2002. The
weird part is that they look blurry at 100%, but look clean and crisp
at 150% (resized in PowerPoint using the Format/Picture... command).
This wasn't something I ran into when I used PP 97.

Is it just me, or is PowerPoint 2002 handling pictures/compression
differently than it did in previous versions?

Jim Erwin
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Ute Simon]

Hi Jim,

Powerpoint 2002 uses so-called "Anti-Aliasing" for bitmap graphics, usually
they should look less jagged due to this feature. But it can be boring
sometimes, if you need to enlarge an image.

Two possible solutions:
1. Enlarge the screen you want to show before making the screenshot, if
possible, so that you don't have to scale your image in PPT.
2. Save your screenshot in metafile format, EMF works best, as PPT doesn't
apply anti-aliasing to this.

Regards,
Ute