Posted by John Chapman on September 7, 2006 at 4:29 AM
Help
I have been asked to put on a Digital slide show for a Camera club. I am going to be using Powerpoint. Could anybody give me advice on the best Image size to use so as my pictures stay sharp.
John
Aberdeen
Posted by Sean Bolton on September 7, 2006 at 4:45 AM
Hi John
I would go for the native resolution of your monitor/LCD. e.g. 1024x768, 1280x960
That way there should be little or no resizing or upressing done in Powerpoint, at least when displayed at full screen size.
cheers
Sean
Posted by Elliott Neep on September 7, 2006 at 4:49 AM
Hi John,
Unfortunately powerpoint isn't the greatest presenter of images. Last summer I did a string of talks using powerpoint. I just resized all the images to match the screen size of the laptop at 72dpi so PowerPoint wouldn't have to alter things. Use a high-quality jpeg, say a 10.
Have you considered Adobe Lightoom? If you download the Beta version (which is FREE), the software has a great slideshow utility which produces HQ viewing. There are many parameters to alter and fiddle with. The only thing is that you may need quite a powerful laptopn to run it. Worth doing though, if you can.
Forget Powerpoint, it's very clunky! If you want one of the best (and easiest to use) presenters out there, then take a look at Pictures2Exe. V4 is a very stable and capable release and doesn't cost the earth either, and the tech support is excellent. They also have a new V5 in beta at the moment which looks very promising!
If you do decide to use P2E, then stick with V4 until you're more used to it...V5 is very powerful and the advanced effects take some figuring on how to get the best from them. V5Beta also needs a more powerful PC/Laptop/graphics card combination.
As Sean mentioned - as far as image sizing goes, find out the native resolution of the projector/laptop combination and size to suit.
HTH
Posted by Mike Smith on September 7, 2006 at 6:46 AM
You need to establish the projection capability of the "litepro" to be used - they are not all configured to project screen resolution size, if you produce files that are too big in dimensions that the projector can handle, they will be squeezed with loss of definition. Most projector units should now be 1024 x 768, but you need to make sure what equipment will be in use.
Also if the club is used to ordinary slide shows, you may want to ask for the audience to sit slightly further back, there is a definate loss in sharpness from digital projected images compared to projected slide - something frequently remarked upon at our photographic competion as we still have a mixture of slide and digital entries. - you are using the same number of pixels that would generate a 3" x2" print at 300DPI, but projecting it to at least 8' size......
Posted by John Chapman on September 7, 2006 at 10:54 AM
Hi Guys
Thanks for the advice much appreciated.
John
Aberdeen
Hi John I use ACDSee32 for my slideshows it automatically resizes any size of image to fit the screen also you can use your keyboard to manoeuvre backwards forwards and zoom in and out you can set it to run automatically changing a slide from one to ten seconds or you can use it manually.
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7 repliesI have been asked to put on a Digital slide show for a Camera club. I am going to be using Powerpoint. Could anybody give me advice on the best Image size to use so as my pictures stay sharp.
John
Aberdeen
I would go for the native resolution of your monitor/LCD. e.g. 1024x768, 1280x960
That way there should be little or no resizing or upressing done in Powerpoint, at least when displayed at full screen size.
cheers
Sean
Unfortunately powerpoint isn't the greatest presenter of images. Last summer I did a string of talks using powerpoint. I just resized all the images to match the screen size of the laptop at 72dpi so PowerPoint wouldn't have to alter things. Use a high-quality jpeg, say a 10.
Have you considered Adobe Lightoom? If you download the Beta version (which is FREE), the software has a great slideshow utility which produces HQ viewing. There are many parameters to alter and fiddle with. The only thing is that you may need quite a powerful laptopn to run it. Worth doing though, if you can.
Forget Powerpoint, it's very clunky! If you want one of the best (and easiest to use) presenters out there, then take a look at Pictures2Exe. V4 is a very stable and capable release and doesn't cost the earth either, and the tech support is excellent. They also have a new V5 in beta at the moment which looks very promising!
If you do decide to use P2E, then stick with V4 until you're more used to it...V5 is very powerful and the advanced effects take some figuring on how to get the best from them. V5Beta also needs a more powerful PC/Laptop/graphics card combination.
As Sean mentioned - as far as image sizing goes, find out the native resolution of the projector/laptop combination and size to suit.
HTH
Also if the club is used to ordinary slide shows, you may want to ask for the audience to sit slightly further back, there is a definate loss in sharpness from digital projected images compared to projected slide - something frequently remarked upon at our photographic competion as we still have a mixture of slide and digital entries. - you are using the same number of pixels that would generate a 3" x2" print at 300DPI, but projecting it to at least 8' size......
Thanks for the advice much appreciated.
John
Aberdeen
Phillip.
How did you get on with this? What software did you use?