PowerPoint for storing family photos

[Steve]

We have scanned hundreds of family photos directly into
PowerPoint and now when viewing them, we find that the
images are often distorted. The people are too fat, too
skinny, too tall, or too short for some reason. We put
labels of the person's name, date, etc. on the images
using the templates in the program and I wonder if those
are distorting the images now.

Is there anyway to remedy this situation other than
rescanning the photos and maybe not putting them directly
into PowerPoint? If these images were converted to GIF or
TIFF or PDF files, would this put them back into proper
proportion?

Any ideas that might help will be appreciated.

 

[Michael Koerner]

Scanning directly into PowerPoint is not really the best way to go. you would be better to scan your image to a bmp file of your choice and then insert it into PowerPoint. In PowerPoint, you can try right clicking the image, and selecting format | size | reset and see if that helps.

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We have scanned hundreds of family photos directly into
PowerPoint and now when viewing them, we find that the
images are often distorted. The people are too fat, too
skinny, too tall, or too short for some reason. We put
labels of the person's name, date, etc. on the images
using the templates in the program and I wonder if those
are distorting the images now.

Is there anyway to remedy this situation other than
rescanning the photos and maybe not putting them directly
into PowerPoint? If these images were converted to GIF or
TIFF or PDF files, would this put them back into proper
proportion?

Any ideas that might help will be appreciated.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We have scanned hundreds of family photos directly into

PowerPoint and now when viewing them, we find that the
images are often distorted. The people are too fat, too
skinny, too tall, or too short for some reason. We put
labels of the person's name, date, etc. on the images
using the templates in the program and I wonder if those
are distorting the images now.

PowerPoint's not a good way to store images.
It's a fine way to use images to create a show, but not the best place to
store the images themselves.

Would this be PowerPoint XP?
If so, it's probable that it's horrid automatic formatting has squished
squashed and otherwise mangled your relatives.
Try this:

Right click one of the photos and hold down the right mousebutton while you
drag the photo a bit to one side or the other. When the popup appears,
choose Copy Here.

Doubleclick the copy; click Picture in the Format Picture dialog box and
click RESET.

Does that fixemup?

If so, do the stuff here before going further:

Don't use PowerPoint for anything serious until you've done this
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00034.htm

 

[Stephen]

The problem is when you try to stretch the image into the
slide. Slides use the same ratio in size as your monitor
(3:4... Height by Width). Pictures vary in their ratios,
and when you stretch them to the 3:4 ratio, it will cause
the pictures to become distorted.

In order to stop this, there are different methods.
First, if you are using the picture as a background, make
sure you have the "lock aspect ratio" check box checked
(this is found in the picture tab in fill effects).

If you are inserting the picture from a file, then when
you stretch the image to the screen, use the shift key
along with your mouse to keep the same ratio.

There is an easy way to insert multiple pictures into
powerpoint and not have this problem. Go to
Insert>Picture>New Photo Album. This guide will let you
pick the pictures you want (and thus making it far easier
to insert multiple pictures), and it will keep that ratio
for you.

 

[B]

Depends of which relatives.

Which brings up another point. I keep moving but my relative's links won't
break. (g)

B

 

[Sonia]

Make them pathless links and they won't be able to find you. <EG>

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

I only wish that were true - or is that the wine talking?

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