Convert power pt prsentation to photos

[decolb]

Is there a way to convert a power point presentation of photos back to individual images, jpeg or psd, which could be included in the PSE catalog?

[Dave McElderry]

With the presentation open, go to File > Save As. Select a location to save to, give it a name, and In the "Save as type" drop-down select JPEG. Click on Save. You'll get a pop-up asking if you want to export every slide in the presentation or only the current slide.

[Steve Grisetti]

PowerPoint has tools for outputting its slides as TIFs or JPGs. I think it's under the File menu.

But beware -- It generally produces pretty low quality slides. Print-outs look pretty good. But, for some reason, the JPGs and TIFs you output from a PowerPoint presentation come out rather blurry. So if you're planning to use them to create a video slideshow using PHotoshop Elements or Premiere Elements, you may not like the results. Unless Microsoft has improved it in the last generation or so of the program.

In fact, you may get better results just showing each presentation slide full-screen and doing a screen capture of each manually.

[Bob]

Steve's method captures the entire slide and not just the photo.

If you have PowerPoint installed on the computer, one way is to Choose File -> Save As and select .html from the File Format drop down. That will cause PowerPoint to convert the presentation pages to html files and the photos will be extracted and saved in the folder where you save the html. The drawback is that embedded photos that are larger than the page size will be resized and lose quality.

Another way to do it that maintains the quality is to use Open Office. It's free if you don't have it. The Open Office equivalent to PowerPoint is called Impress. Open the PPT file in OpenOffice Impress. Don't do anything to the presentation. Instead, Save As an ODF Presentation (ODP file). ODP is the native format for Impress files. Rename the file from xxxx.ODP to xxxx.ZIP. You can now open it like a regular zip file. The photos are located in a folder named "Pictures". Locate that folder and extract them. The photos will be the same size as the ones originally imported into the PowerPoint project. The names will be generated names, you may want to rename them to something meaningful.

[decolb]

Thank you all for your suggestions. I'll give them a try and see what works.

Dave

[TreeTopsRanch]

Hey Bob, Your method worked for me also. Except my version of Open Office power point equivalent was called 'Presentation' instead of 'Impress'