Crash course help?

[tudball]

As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to
throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the
corner ( by that I mean no time to study and become proficient at this
new-to-me program). I can see how to add a digital photo to a slide
and make it full screen. But I'm going to have to be scanning lots of
photo prints and adding them as well. Is there a "resolution" or some
scanner settings I should use to get the optimal file size for
PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this
idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

For on-screen presenting purposes 150 dpi should be adequate.

For high quality printing purposes I would use at least 300 dpi (takes more
disc space, slower to work with). If you want to print enlarged copies after
scanning use 1200 dpi or higher.

If you have a lot of pictures and you want to automatically put one picture
per slide automatically scaled to the slide size then check out my add-in:

http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/PowerPoint/ppt2004.htm

-Jim

As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to
throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the
corner ( by that I mean no time to study and become proficient at this
new-to-me program). I can see how to add a digital photo to a slide
and make it full screen. But I'm going to have to be scanning lots of
photo prints and adding them as well. Is there a "resolution" or some
scanner settings I should use to get the optimal file size for
PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this
idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Steve Rindsberg]

As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to
throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the
corner ( by that I mean no time to study and become proficient at this
new-to-me program). I can see how to add a digital photo to a slide
and make it full screen. But I'm going to have to be scanning lots of
photo prints and adding them as well. Is there a "resolution" or some
scanner settings I should use to get the optimal file size for
PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this
idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.

Assuming this'll be shown via digital projector, find out the max resolution
it's capable of (assume 1024x768 if you can't find specific information) and
use that as your target file size.

This will probably mean setting your scanner software to talk to you in pixels
rather than inches or dpi, but that's ok.

The other approach is to scan 'em all at fairly large sizes then use a photo
editing program to "downsample" them to the final desired resolution (ideally
in some kind of batch mode, if the program permits it).

To insert the photos, use Insert, Picture, From File rather than
copy/paste/click/drag/or/like/that




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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[tudball]

Thanks Jim & Steve, I think I can handle this now. And I'm going for
the add-in.

Dave