Cut and past photo from PP results in poor quality

I need to modify a photo that is already on a powerpoint slide. I copied
and pasted the photo from PowerPoint into PaintShop Pro to airbursh out some
information. The quality of the photo when pasted into PaintShop Pro was
terrible - the resolution appeared quite low. When the modified photo was
saved to the clipboard then pasted back on the slide, the poor quality
remained. I also tried saving the modified picture to a jpg file then
"inserted picture from file." The quality was still very poor. Seems like
I should be able to maintain the quality of the photo as it is in the
original slide ... unless of course Microsoft does something funky with the
graphics in PowerPoint to reduce their size therefore not allowing me to
make the changes I need to make without the quality suffering big time. I
don't have the file of the original photo. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Rick

I'm sure Steve or someone can tell you why this happens, but if I were in your shoes, I'd just save the slide out as an image (use File/Save As and choose an image type -- PNG works well -- from the "as type" dropdown at the bottom of that dialog box) and edit that image in PaintShop Pro.

Then save the edited image and use Insert/Picture/From File to reinsert into PPT. (But I think you already know that part. <g>)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com


"Rick J" wrote:

> I need to modify a photo that is already on a powerpoint slide. I copied
> and pasted the photo from PowerPoint into PaintShop Pro to airbursh out some
> information. The quality of the photo when pasted into PaintShop Pro was
> terrible - the resolution appeared quite low. When the modified photo was
> saved to the clipboard then pasted back on the slide, the poor quality
> remained. I also tried saving the modified picture to a jpg file then
> "inserted picture from file." The quality was still very poor. Seems like
> I should be able to maintain the quality of the photo as it is in the
> original slide ... unless of course Microsoft does something funky with the
> graphics in PowerPoint to reduce their size therefore not allowing me to
> make the changes I need to make without the quality suffering big time. I
> don't have the file of the original photo. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>
>

> I should be able to maintain the quality of the photo as it is in the
> original slide ... unless of course Microsoft does something funky with the
> graphics in PowerPoint to reduce their size therefore not allowing me to
> make the changes I need to make without the quality suffering big time. I
> don't have the file of the original photo. Any thoughts?

Explanations as to why this happens, no.
Workarounds, yes.

If you have an Office version prior to 2003, it included MS Photo Editor (if
you don't have it, you may need to rerun setup to get it installed)

Select a photo in PPT, then choose Edit, Copy (or Ctrl+C)

Switch to Photo Editor and choose Edit, Paste As New Image.
Save as PNG and open that in Photoshop. It will be the same resolution as the
image you originally brought into PPT via Insert, Picture, From File (and
that's how you should bring the edited image back in from Photoshop.

If you don't have Photo Edit, the best bet might be to select the image, scale
it up way big (several times the size of the slide if need be) then copy/paste
it into Photoshop.



--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com

"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
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> If you have an Office version prior to 2003, it included MS Photo Editor
(if
> you don't have it, you may need to rerun setup to get it installed)

If you have PowerPoint XP or 2003 then just right click the image, choose
Save as image and click the little arrow next to the Save button to select
'Save original'. This retains the original resolution in the same way.

In article <uqUoawbMEHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Adam Crowley wrote:
> If you have PowerPoint XP or 2003 then just right click the image, choose
> Save as image and click the little arrow next to the Save button to select
> 'Save original'. This retains the original resolution in the same way.
>

Beautiful! Thanks, Adam.

I've added this to
Extract images from PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00344.htm

--
Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com

It even works for background images inserted using Format>Background, which
is a bonus compared to screen grabs. Right click>Save background. I don't
get the 'Save original' option but it seems to save the original anyway.

"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00000512.1ec8079f@localhost.com...
> In article <uqUoawbMEHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Adam Crowley wrote:
> > If you have PowerPoint XP or 2003 then just right click the image,
choose
> > Save as image and click the little arrow next to the Save button to
select
> > 'Save original'. This retains the original resolution in the same way.
> >
>
> Beautiful! Thanks, Adam.
>
> I've added this to
> Extract images from PowerPoint
> http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00344.htm
>
> --
> Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> PPTools: www.pptools.com
>

....or should I say it keeps the original size and file format. It
recompresses JPEGs.

"Adam Crowley" <adam@web****eDOTorg> wrote in message
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> It even works for background images inserted using Format>Background,
which
> is a bonus compared to screen grabs. Right click>Save background. I
don't
> get the 'Save original' option but it seems to save the original anyway.
>
> "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@localhost.com> wrote in message
> news:VA.00000512.1ec8079f@localhost.com...
> > In article <uqUoawbMEHA.2676@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Adam Crowley wrote:
> > > If you have PowerPoint XP or 2003 then just right click the image,
> choose
> > > Save as image and click the little arrow next to the Save button to
> select
> > > 'Save original'. This retains the original resolution in the same
way.
> > >
> >
> > Beautiful! Thanks, Adam.
> >
> > I've added this to
> > Extract images from PowerPoint
> > http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00344.htm
> >
> > --
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> >
>
>