PowerPoint Question

[CarolynM]

Howdy! I am back from a week long mission trip in Louisiana; our church group helped repair 2 homes damaged in Hurricane Rita and myself and "another total knee replacement person" helped with their volunteer office files. (No wonder the new staff couldn't find anything)

Anyway, I am going through my photos and selecting my best ones that will be added to a slide show of photos taken from other camera owners who were also on the trip. I'm not the one making the slide show itself, but I am running my photos through Photoshop CS2 and then putting the collection on a CD to give to the person who is creating the Powerpoint show that will be shown at a church service on Sunday April 29.

My question is what RESOLUTION do I need to set my photos? I've asked this question elsewhere in other years and the only reply I get is that it doesn't matter, the projector sets the resolution.
From past experience, it does make some differences!!!!!!!! If I DO NOT change the resolution at all -- Image re-size (not bicubic), the whole photo is not shown in that PP slide--people on both ends of a large group (in 1 photo) become 1/2 a person or are missing totally from the photo slide in PP. It happens in the powerpoint program only. If I DO change the resolution to 300 ppi, same as in ready for printing, the whole photo is there, but it is slightly smaller on the rest of the photos in the PP show.

The last 3 years of mission trips and it always happens. This year I do have a different digital camera than in the past. The default resolution from the older camera might have been 96 ppi; don't remember for sure. The camera I took on this trip, the default resolution IS 180 ppi when straight from the camera.

When you professionals make a PP presentation from your photos, do you do any photo resizing changes at all and if so, what changes do you make? If not, then what is the default resolution of your jpg photos, when straight from the camera? (My camera(s) shoot jpgs only, no RAW.) So if your camera shoots Raw + Jpeg, what resolution is your jpeg? If you shoot RAW only, what is your resolution setting when you convert your RAW file into a Jpeg???

Please do advise.
Thank you!
Sincerely, CarolynM

[PIC]

Sorry bout knee and homes.
The PowerPoints I have made are from thumbnails that are 1 inch on smallest side and at 300 dpi { ie 300 x 450 or 400 x 300}. Its SIZE and DPI.
But the rule above works well for all my thumbnails and you can resize to any size you want. Typical thumbnail size is about 150 K.
Have Power Make Point.

EL

[kenw]

insert the image, then grab a corner and make the image small until it all fits. You may have some blank space along some edges due to the different aspect ratios, don't sweat it (set the background color to black).

The PPT file size will be huge, but the other solutions are too lengthy to explain.

[Terry C]

The powerpoint window is 10" X 7.5" (approx.) for the slide show For all but the most detailed images 100 ppi is more than sufficient (on most images 72 ppi works fine). This keeps the file down to manageable size and keeps the computer from displaying the "red X of insufficient memory". At 100 ppi the image might need to be stretched somewhat to fit the window but at 72 ppi it should fit exactly. Slight sharpening utilizing unsharp mask is recommended but not until the image has been resized and before it is saved as a jpg.

[dbphotos]

If you crop all your photos to 72dpi and 10" x 7.5" they will all fit perfectly and look just fine. 300 dpi is overkill for PowerPoint.