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leftnotracks - 31 Mar 2005 00:53 GMT

I want to copy an image from a PowerPoint presentation to Photoshop (saving
the image as a file is just as good). Copying only copies at screen
resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at it?
Or am I SOL?

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PPTMagician - 31 Mar 2005 01:15 GMT

Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00052.htm

You're LOL!

Glenna

> I want to copy an image from a PowerPoint presentation to Photoshop (saving
> the image as a file is just as good). Copying only copies at screen
> resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at it?
> Or am I SOL?

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leftnotracks - 31 Mar 2005 01:19 GMT

This link shows how to increase resolution for exported/copied images. That's
not quite what I am after. I don't want to arbitrarily increase the
resolution of the slide. I want to copy the exact pixel data for the image.
If the image is 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels, then that's what I want.

> Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
> http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00052.htm
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> > resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at it?
> > Or am I SOL?

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leftnotracks - 31 Mar 2005 01:21 GMT

This shows how to increase a slide's resolution to any arbitrary value. I
want to copy an image with a specific resolution at that exact resolution, so
this might help if nothing else will, but it's not the answer I'm looking for.

Perhaps Microsoft can spend some of that money writing good programs. Nah,
never happen.

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PPTMagician - 31 Mar 2005 01:39 GMT

PowerPoint isn't an image editor, nor is it meant to be.

Perhaps you can work with the original images before they were inserted into
PowerPoint.

If you need to export images from presentations a lot, maybe you should
consider purchasing: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00005.htm

Glenna

> This shows how to increase a slide's resolution to any arbitrary value. I
> want to copy an image with a specific resolution at that exact resolution, so
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> > > resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at it?
> > > Or am I SOL?

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leftnotracks - 31 Mar 2005 01:49 GMT

So, basically, "you can't get there from here?"

I'm not using Powerpoint as an image editor, that's why I want to get the
image into Photoshop. Is it really true that ou-of-the-box PowerPoint won't
copy an antire image or export it to another program? That's disgraceful!

I'll use the link you gave me to the other tip, resizing to like 10 time the
original and sampling back down to something reasonable.

Thanks for the quick responses.

> PowerPoint isn't an image editor, nor is it meant to be.
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> > > > resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at it?
> > > > Or am I SOL?

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Bill Dilworth - 31 Mar 2005 03:46 GMT

When I use the copy (Ctl+C) function and paste into PhotoEditor, I get the
full image quality.

However, if you use the PowerPoint right-click the picture and 'save as'
function, you will have somewhat mixed results. The Save as function
limited to a maximum of 150 dpi. So, if the original picture is taken at 72
dpi, and it is resized to 1/3 the size, you will loss about 1/3 of the
picture quality. Like Glenna said, PowerPoint is not designed to be a
graphics editing program, so it kinda self-imposes this limit to keep from
having to handle the extra picture data (that can not be displayed anyway).
If you want to use the right click save picture as function, then resize the
picture back to 100%, then right click and save away. You can use the undo
in PowerPoint to reset the image size after you have saved it.

Is this more like what you wanted?

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>I want to copy an image from a PowerPoint presentation to Photoshop (saving
> the image as a file is just as good). Copying only copies at screen
> resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at
> it?
> Or am I SOL?

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Shyam Pillai - 31 Mar 2005 03:47 GMT

Have you tried this out?
Extract images out of the presentation
http://skp.mvps.org/pptxp002.htm

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>I want to copy an image from a PowerPoint presentation to Photoshop (saving
> the image as a file is just as good). Copying only copies at screen
> resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at
> it?
> Or am I SOL?

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TAJ Simmons - 31 Mar 2005 11:55 GMT

leftnotracks,

If you can select the image,

edit > copy

then

= THIS ONLY WORKS WITH MICROSOFT PHOTO EDITOR =

start ms photo editor

edit > paste

Then you get the same pixel image out of powerpoint.

If the image has been cropped in powerpoint, it helps if you click the
"reset picture" button on the picture toolbar in powerpoint

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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>I want to copy an image from a PowerPoint presentation to Photoshop (saving
> the image as a file is just as good). Copying only copies at screen
> resoluition, not the entire image. The data is there, so how do I get at
> it?
> Or am I SOL?

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leftnotracks - 31 Mar 2005 19:37 GMT

That's IT! Thank you!

> leftnotracks,
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> > Or am I SOL?

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