Using Powerpoint, my watermark seems to be distorted (stretched);.

[Guest]

I'm using PP 2003 - am trying to use a color photo as a watermark for a title
slide - I have followed instructions, whitewash etc. but the image keeps
coming out distorted. can t his be corrected?

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Bbenster,

if you get powerpoint to put your image on the background using "format >
background > fill effects > picture"

then it will fill the screen.

There is a tick box to "lock picture aspect ratio"

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint graphics,
http://www.powerpoint-graphics.com
free powerpoint pictures, tutorials, hints and tips etc

 

[Guest]

I must have missed the instructions. To which instructions are your
referring? Are you trying to get the picture to fill the whole screen? If so,
your picture will have to have a 4:3 ratio of width to height. Otherwise,
depending on which instructions you follow, the picture will either be
distorted, cut off, or not filling the screen.

Try this:

After you have whitewashed your photo and before you have adjusted its size,
place the picture on the master slide (View > Master > Slide Master). Next,
drag the picture from any corner (not the middle of a side) to maintain the
width:height ratio. Keep dragging from corners until it is as close to
filling the screen as you can get it to be. Next, go to the Draw menu, and
choose Order > Send to Back. Now close the master view, and you should have a
non-distorted (though possibly cut off or not quite full-screen) watermark.

--David

David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/