Posted by Josh Anderson on September 12, 2006 at 9:26 PM
I have several presentations coming up and I will be displaying images via Microsoft Power Point. At what size should I be saving the images? I want the images to look nice and sharp, but I will also have to save the entire presentation to a disc.
Thanks in advance.
Posted by Jack Graham on September 12, 2006 at 10:21 PM
Josh,
I'll call you tomorrow.... You might want to check out Pro Show Gold.
JG
Posted by Stacy Egan on September 13, 2006 at 10:23 AM
You may already know this, but to save disk space for your presentation, save as a PowerPoint Slideshow (*.pps). Sorry, I don't know the answer to your optimal image size question.
Posted by Guy Tal on September 13, 2006 at 10:34 AM
I actually found ProShow Gold useless for slide shows since it doesn't have a way to flip forward/backwards manually. Instead I ended up using PicturesToExe. ProShow Gold is great for creating unattended presentations.
Either way - do you know the specs of the projector you'll be using? For best results you'll want images sized to the projector's native resolution.
If you can't find out, sizing your images to 800x600 and converting to sRGB is a good bet. Note that PowerPoint will resize images automatically so it may not be the best tool for the job.
Guy
Posted by David Bostedo on September 17, 2006 at 9:17 PM
Here's a link from Microsoft talking a little about your question :
And here's a tip if you are using PowerPoint and are worried about the file size :
1) Right click one of the pictures in your file and select "Format Picture"
2) Select the "Picture" tab
3) Select the "Compress" button
This dialog box will then let you compress all of the images in your document if they are showing up smaller than the screen resolution. For instance, if you have a 3000x2000 picture in a slide, Powerpoint has already scaled it down to fit on your screen. This will resample it to the size it shows up on your screen. I'm not exactly sure what it does to the quality, but it might be worth a shot. It might be moot if you're resizing for PowerPoint anyway.
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4 repliesThanks in advance.
I'll call you tomorrow.... You might want to check out Pro Show Gold.
JG
Either way - do you know the specs of the projector you'll be using? For best results you'll want images sized to the projector's native resolution.
If you can't find out, sizing your images to 800x600 and converting to sRGB is a good bet. Note that PowerPoint will resize images automatically so it may not be the best tool for the job.
Guy
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011163551033.aspx
And here's a tip if you are using PowerPoint and are worried about the file size :
1) Right click one of the pictures in your file and select "Format Picture"
2) Select the "Picture" tab
3) Select the "Compress" button
This dialog box will then let you compress all of the images in your document if they are showing up smaller than the screen resolution. For instance, if you have a 3000x2000 picture in a slide, Powerpoint has already scaled it down to fit on your screen. This will resample it to the size it shows up on your screen. I'm not exactly sure what it does to the quality, but it might be worth a shot. It might be moot if you're resizing for PowerPoint anyway.