When your business relies upon visual details, creating presentations with sharp graphics is important. Sometimes, converting a PowerPoint presentation components to a different format such as JPEG affects the quality of the photos. While changing a PowerPoint presentation slide to JPEG is easy, checking the settings for compression of pictures before saving allows for the creation of high-resolution graphics.
Jan 31, 2019 Save an Entire Slide as an Image. In “Normal View” mode, select the slide you want to save as an image from the left pane. We’ll select slide 1 in this example. Now, select the “File” tab. Click “Save As.”. Select the location you’d like to save the file, name your file, and then select the image file type.
Purpose
After you have developed a good PowerPoint presentation, you may find you want to use one particular slide for placement on a Web page or brochure. The JPEG or JPG format is well-suited for complex pictures and photos with many colors, since it supports 16 million colors. When compressed, however, JPEGs may lose some detail. While the effect may not be readily visible in PowerPoint presentations, you can keep the loss from occurring when you convert the photos from the slides.
Resolution
Select the slide you want to save as JPEGs from your presentation. Click the 'Picture Tools' option from the menu and click 'Compress Pictures.' The choices in the middle section of the dialog box affect the resolution. Click to place the radial button next to 'Print' to set the dots per inch -- or dpi -- at 200. The higher this number, the better the resolution for the picture will be. The default resolution for saving as Web images in 96 dpi, so the print option results in higher resolution.
Compression
Ensure that the box next to 'Compress Pictures' in the Compress Pictures dialog box does not have a check mark in it. Compressed pictures take up less memory or drive space, but you may lose quality if you compress the picture, particularly if you enlarge and print it. The blocks making up the picture become more evident as you compress and then enlarge the photo. Before you save the changes, you can undo compression in PowerPoint by clicking 'Reset Picture' from the Picture Toolbar, but once you save the photo, compression cannot be undone.
Save
Click 'OK' to close the Compress Pictures dialog box. Click 'File' from the menu and 'Save As.' Click the arrow next to 'Save as type' to open the drop-down menu and click 'JPEG.' Type a name for the new file and click 'Save.' PowerPoint prompts you to save either the single slide or the entire presentation in the JPEG format. Click to place the radial button by your choice and click 'OK.'
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To extract images from Microsoft's PowerPoint on a Mac, you may have to try a couple of different methods to get the results you want. Unlike most programs, dragging an image from a PowerPoint slide onto the desktop does not usually work, because the images are embedded in PowerPoint; dragging results in a 'Picture Clipping' file that cannot be opened. For the best quality images, copy images directly from the slide, although this process sometimes results in acquiring only part of the picture. When copying fails, grab a screenshot of the image. While this does not give you the highest quality image, it works when copying the image does not.
Copying Images
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Launch PowerPoint and open the presentation containing the images you want to capture. Navigate to the first slide with an image using the scrollbar on the right side of the window.
2.Click the image with the mouse to select it. Press 'Command-C' simultaneously on the keyboard to copy the image.
3.Launch Preview. Click the 'File' menu and select 'New From Clipboard.' The image, or a portion of the image, opens in Preview. Compare the image in Preview with the one in the PowerPoint presentation. If it is the same, continue to the Exporting From Preview section of this article. If the picture is not the same, close the Preview window without saving and continue to the Capturing Screenshots section.
Capturing Screenshots
1.Launch the PowerPoint presentation and navigate to the slide containing an image you want to capture. To make the image as large as possible, press the 'Slide Show' button.
2.Press 'Command-Shift-4' simultaneously on the keyboard. The cursor changes to a cross-hair symbol. Place the cursor on one corner of the image. Drag the cursor to the diagonally opposite corner. When you release the mouse button, a screenshot of the selected area is saved to the desktop.
3.Double-click the screenshot image on your desktop. Preview opens the picture.
4.Crop the image if needed by clicking the 'Tool' menu. Click 'Select Tool.' Drag the Select Tool across the image to select the portion you want to keep. Press 'Command-K' on the keyboard to crop the image. Press 'Command-Z' to undo the crop and try again.
5.When you are satisfied with the image as it appears in Preview, continue to the Exporting From Preview section of this article.
Exporting From Preview
1.Select 'Export' from the File menu of Preview to open the Export dialog box.
2.Click the 'Format' menu in the middle of the dialog box and select the format for the saved image.
3.Type a new name in the Export As field if desired. Click the 'Save' button.
Tip
- If the PowerPoint presentation came in a folder, check the folder for any image files. Sometimes the person who made the presentation includes the images in a folder named 'Media,' 'Media Inserts' or 'Images.' You can then use the images directly without having to export them from the slides.
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A published author and professional speaker, David Weedmark has advised businesses and governments on technology, media and marketing for more than 20 years. He has taught computer science at Algonquin College, has started three successful businesses, and has written hundreds of articles for newspapers and magazines throughout Canada and the United States.
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