If you have cropped pictures and you want to delete the cropped-out areas of pictures to save additional space, select the Delete cropped areas of pictures check-box (see Figure 4, above).If you want to compress all the pictures in the presentation, make sure you deselect this check-box, as you can see highlighted in red within Figure 4.įigure 4: Apply only to this picture check-box deselected This check-box, when selected enables you to compress just the selected picture.Options within both of these sections are explained below: Note that some options within the Resolution section might not be available for selection (greyed out) this is because the inserted picture has already been compressed. The Compress Pictures dialog box is divided into two sections: Compression options and Resolution.Doing so opens the Compress Pictures dialog box, as you can see in Figure 3.Within the Picture Tools Format tab, click the Compress Pictures button, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 2.They make an appearance only when you are working with a particular slide object which can be edited using the options within these tabs. Contextual tabs are special tabs in the Ribbon that are not visible all the time. Note: The Picture Tools Format tab is a Contextual tab. This brings up the Picture Tools Format contextual tab on the Ribbon as shown in Figure 1 (highlighted in blue). Open the presentation, navigate to any slide that contains a picture and select it.To reduce the resolution and compress images within PowerPoint 2016 for Windows, follow these steps: However, if you are distributing the presentation in other forms, a higher resolution might be appropriate. A computer screen shows 96 pixels per inch, so you do not need higher resolution than that if you are only showing your presentation on-screen.
This roughly translates to dots per inch (dpi) on a printout. Picture resolution is measured in PowerPoint in pixels per inch, or ppi. It does so by reducing the picture resolution to the amount needed for the type of output you specify (E-mail, Screen, or Print).
The Compress Pictures feature reduces the size of all inserted pictures in the presentation in a single step. There are options to make any such compression even more effective. Recent versions of PowerPoint do some automatic picture compression, even if you are not aware. However, even if pictures enhance appearances, they can also phenomenally increase the size of your presentation file. Yes, undoubtedly a presentation with relevant pictures is more effective than plain text slides.