no question too stupid#1 and #2

[tc]

Hello
I am a very new user of PP. I will project the presentation onto a
screen, the way slides were shown in art history classes. I will use it
for lectures at an art college and will be showing pictures of artist's
work only. The images are often taken from artist exhibition
catalogues. I want to scan these images in the best possible way. To
work with current equipment, but also so the image is the most vivid
when the next generation of projectors come into being.

Days of reading books and so on. They are all for word slides, templates
etc.
#1. When I scan, what controls the quality of the image seen by the
audience: the resolution of the computer that is hooked up to the
projector? The resolution of the projector? How does the the setting
of resolution for the scanning come into play? Is 96dpi really the best
you can get for pp presentations. Live, not on the web.

#2. In one of these books, I read that you should enlarge or shrink the
image (via the target size setting) to the size it appears in the
presentation. Is this the size as it appears on the monitor in
"Slideshow View"? On the wall when it is projected?
Thank you, thank you.
TC

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Art teachers are good folks. I know. I married one. ;-)

#1. When I scan, what controls the quality of the image seen by the
audience: the resolution of the computer that is hooked up to the
projector? The resolution of the projector?

The resolution of the projector is the controlling factor. You want the
resolution of the computer display set to match the max resolution the
projector's capable of.

How does the the setting
of resolution for the scanning come into play? Is 96dpi really the best
you can get for pp presentations. Live, not on the web.

Yes. No. Sometimes. Never. 96dpi doesn't mean anything, ya see.

Change the scanner settings to pixels so you can tell what you're really
getting and scan for the max resolution of the projector. Or better yet, scan
well over that, save the result as your master image, then downsample and crop
as need be to get the image down to the projector max, and save that as a new
image; insert THAT into PPT. If projector capabilities go way up in the
future, you can go back to your master image and resample it to the new rez.

#2. In one of these books, I read that you should enlarge or shrink the
image (via the target size setting) to the size it appears in the
presentation. Is this the size as it appears on the monitor in
"Slideshow View"? On the wall when it is projected?

Some books just beg to be kindling. Unless this one has other redeeming
qualities, consider using it to start campfires with. It might end up being
useful that way. ;-)

Again, it's back to pixels as displayed by the projector. If you plan on
making the image less than full screen then you can scan to a lower rez image.
For example, the usual projector nowadays works at 1024x768. A half-frame
image would be 512 x 768 - and that's the image size you want it to be.

Think pixels. Be happy. ;-)

 

[Glen Millar]

Art teachers are good folks. I know. I married one. ;-)

Yep. She told him to say that <vbg>.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yep. She told him to say that <vbg>.

Yep. And being a well trained hubby, I do as I'm told.