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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / October 2007Custom backgrounds
What size do backgrounds need to be when making them in Photoshop? PowerPoint will use what you give it and stretch or shirk them to fit the number of pixels required. Now, here is where it gets a bit tricky. PowerPoint can be set to run at a specified screen size (resolution) or can be set to run on the users native resolution. However the native resolution of the users screen can be different from the user's projector. Users may have jumbo-tron monitor's that will look very pixilated when seen from close up. Others might be using PDA's to view the same presentation. You will never be perfectly right for all possible situations. Large pictures = large files. Balance picture image quality with file size. Bottom line, most screen and projectors can display 1024 x 768 fairly well. I'd make it that size and let PowerPoint deal with it from there.  SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > What size do backgrounds need to be when making them in Photoshop? Ok. Good info. But what happens when you print. I am doing a presentation and we print full slides on 99% of all our presentations. PPT is stretching the backgrounds I make in Photoshop. The size I was making them is 10 x 7.73 at 150 DPI. However, the background is doing what you said, being stretched. I was wondering what the native size was for printing. PPT 2007 also wants to automotically adjust based on the information on the slide. On the background I am currently using it is ashusting by -3% up and down. I am acustomed to making Photoshop files to fit the info on the PPT slide. Now the resolution on printing is pixelated. > PowerPoint will use what you give it and stretch or shirk them to fit the > number of pixels required. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > What size do backgrounds need to be when making them in Photoshop? If you are concerned about printing quality, you will want to design the Photoshop images for 10"x7.5" at 300 DPI or 3000 x 2250 pixels. Then have PowerPoint print the slides actual size by unchecking the "Scale to fit" option in the print dialog. Also make sure that no one "optimizes" the pictures in the presentation for screen size. This should improve the quality of the printouts, but will make the file sizes a bit larger. SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > Ok. Good info. But what happens when you print. I am doing a > presentation [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> >> > What size do backgrounds need to be when making them in Photoshop? > If you are concerned about printing quality, you will want to design the > Photoshop images for 10"x7.5" at 300 DPI or 3000 x 2250 pixels. 300 dpi will be over the top unless the resolution of the printer is insanely high (we're talking typesetter). 200 is generally plenty. But you mentioned compression, Mercer mentioned 2007 and do we have a bingo? PowerPoint 2007's automatic compression mis-feature causing reasonably sized graphics to get downsampled? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ I already had him turn that off via registry in another thread. SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm (New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com >> If you are concerned about printing quality, you will want to design the >> Photoshop images for 10"x7.5" at 300 DPI or 3000 x 2250 pixels. [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > I already had him turn that off via registry in another thread. Ah, good. But you've heard back that it didn't help? ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ >> I already had him turn that off via registry in another thread. > > Ah, good. But you've heard back that it didn't help? Yes. Look at the thread from October 23: background fuzzy from Photoshop SignatureEcho [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com What's new in PowerPoint 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm (New!) The PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit http://tinyurl.com/2qzlpl Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/index.html PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com >>> I already had him turn that off via registry in another thread. >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Look at the thread from October 23: background fuzzy from Photoshop Thanks. Well ... sorta heard back. See Kathy's followup question in that same thread. Good question. It's not clear whether the photo got re-inserted AFTER making the registry change. SignatureSteve Rindsberg PPTFAQ: http://www.pptfaq.com PPTools: http://www.pptools.com |
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