picture quality

[Guest]

i am a photographer trying to set up a simple photo slide show but am having
trouble inserting pictures. the quality when opening in powerpoint is a much
lower quality then i am seeing in photoshop. Am i doing something wrong when
scaling the images?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Creating images at the optimized setting is actually a bit confusing when it
comes to PPT. PPT is a display app, so RGB and either 72 - 96 - or 102.4 dpi
depending on how you look at it. The default is 10"x7.5" or the same ratio
as 1024x768.

Here are two links that go into depth on optimizing for PPT:
http://pptxtreme.com/faq.htm (resolution explained)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00075.htm

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[Sandy]

The size of a PowerPoint slide is 10 X 7.5. You need to
create your photos (in Photoshop) to accommodate this
size to maintain the quality.

Of course, PowerPoint is designed to support lower
resolution images, but depending on the number of images
you're inserting (at a higher res?) you should be OK.

Sandy
Remember, it's all in the presentation (SM)

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

i am a photographer trying to set up a simple photo slide show but am having
trouble inserting pictures. the quality when opening in powerpoint is a much
lower quality then i am seeing in photoshop. Am i doing something wrong when
scaling the images?

Lower quality in what way?

Which version of PPT do you use?

As to scaling, it's hard to say whether you're doing something wrong. You
haven't mentioned what you're doing. ;-)

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Justin,

My guess is that you are witnessing powerpoints "re-scaling / anti-aliasing
/ smoothing" algorithm at work.

See this page for what is happening

MUSHY/BLURRY GRAPHICS in PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00065.htm

Then see this page for what to aim for (in terms of pixels). You can forget
the DPI thing
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc