Compress photo

[Guest]

I have a large photo file on one slide of my presentation. Using the compress
button on the toolbar, selecting the web resolution, seems to have no effect
.... any thoughts? Using the unchecking fast save idea found on this board
doen't seem to work either. I'm using 2003.

 

[Sonia]

Compressing an image will have more or less effect depending on its size when it
was inserted. Perhaps your photos don't need compressing? When you say that
your photo is large, can you quantify the size for us? What were its original
dimensions and what was the DPI?

Fast Saves has a cummulative effect and will enlarge the files size depending on
the type and frequency of edits made to the file. Also, once you have turned
the option off, you must save the file to a new name to actually see the results
of stripping the extra information from the file.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a large photo file on one slide of my presentation. Using the compress
button on the toolbar, selecting the web resolution, seems to have no effect
.... any thoughts? Using the unchecking fast save idea found on this board
doen't seem to work either. I'm using 2003.

Photos don't compress under certain circumstances.

If the image has been pasted in as an OLE object or is part of a WMF file, it
probably won't compress, and possibly not under several other conditions.

Make a dupe of the presentation file, then ungroup the photo in question and
compress again. That might do it.

If not, copy the image, choose Paste, Special, As PNG then delete the original