Photos, Graphics and PowerPoint - More Advanced Features in PowerPoint

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Photos and Graphics are a Big Part of a PowerPoint Presentation

Let's face it. A PowerPoint presentation is a visual thing. Photos and graphics are what make them interesting to an audience. Here are some tips to make your slides more appealing.

• Optimize Your Photos for Presentations
  PowerPoint presentations filled with photos, can often monopolize the computer's resources, resulting in a sluggish presentation or even causing a crash. This is where editing your photos first, comes into play.
  • What Do Photos and File Size Have in Common?
  • Optimize Photos to Use in Presentations

• Compress Photos to Reduce Large File Size
  The file size of PowerPoint presentations containing large photos can be dramatically reduced by compressing the pictures in the presentation.
  • Compress Photos in PowerPoint 2007
  • Compress Photos in PowerPoint 2003

• PowerPoint Video - Importing Media into PowerPoint
  Learn how to import, adjust, and arrange media such as photos, clip art and sound in your PowerPoint presentation.
  
  
• Create a Digital Photo Album in PowerPoint
  It is easy to create a digital photo album in PowerPoint. An added bonus is that once completed, you can save the presentation to use on the web as an online photo album.
  • Digital Photo Albums in PowerPoint 2007
  • Digital Photo Albums in PowerPoint 2003

• More on Digital Photo Albums
  • Add a little more interest to your digital photo albums
    9 Tips to Jazz Up Your Digital Photo Albums
  • Sometimes Problems Arise When Creating Photo Albums
    Troubleshoot PowerPoint Photo Albums

• Align Graphic Objects on Slides in PowerPoint
  Using the Distribute feature makes it a "piece of cake" to align graphic objects perfectly.
  • Align Graphics in PowerPoint 2007
  • Align Graphics in PowerPoint (earlier versions)

• Image Maps and Hotspots
  Have you ever watched a PowerPoint presentation and seen the presenter click on a portion of a graph and presto you are taken to the slide pertaining to just that aspect of the graph? The presenter clicked on an area -- (the hotspot) -- of the graph -- (the image map), which linked to the relevant slide.

Complete Advanced PowerPoint Series

1. Photos, Graphics and PowerPoint
   
   
2. Enhance Your PowerPoint Presentation With Animations
   
   
3. Music, Timing and Narrating Your PowerPoint Presentation
   
   
4. Printing Options in PowerPoint
   
   
5. Macros, Master Slides and Web Pages
   
   
6. Package Your PowerPoint Presentations