Images | Glenn Ward

Saving down graphics from powerpoint as a picture, png or jpg

I didn’t realise that this was an unknown to many but often there is a need to pull things out of PowerPoint for alternative uses rather than put them in. This is often the case for me when produce video reports where the findings have been visualised in PowerPoint. So, it’s as simple as this, File > Save As > under the naming form fill change the drop down to png or jpg and hit save, you will then be prompted current slide or every slide, choose every slide and each slide in he deck will be saved as a separate picture or image.

If you just require an element if the slide you can right click and save as image in much the same way.

Top tip,
If your output proposed use is a higher quality than the resolution of the ppt you can often scale up your deck to A3, any vector graphics will be re sized and the quality of the output increased. Go, File > Page Setup and adjust the page accordingly.

The import photos, pictures, images, camera, role from your iPhone Mystery – Transfer NOT using iTunes but Image Capture

This subject is not documented much so i thought I’d explain how to quickly import pictures from your camera role on your iPhone. The obvious thing would be to use iTunes to transfer your photos to your laptop but this is not the case.

You can set up in iTunes to sync a folder on your mac with your phone but this does not retrieve them. On the old iPod you could set the device to appear on the desktop or my computer as an external drive but I don’t think this possible with the iPhone.

With the iPhone plugged in, go to Utilities and open Image Capture. On the left hand side you should see you iPhone and in the main window you will see you entire camera roll. The rests pretty self explanatory! It’s the knowing which program to use which is the undocumented part.

For windows users apparently you can use regular camera capture software, alternatively… buy a Mac!

Adobe Photoshop – Cropping, Resizing, Re Framing and saving images for web tutorial

Open your image File > Open and browse to your file

Cropping, using the crop tool
If you require a thumbnail or web specific sized image, best practise would be to use the Crop Tool.

Set the size in pixels that you would like your final image to be using the toolbar at the top of the photoshop page. Be sure to update the images intended resolution, for web you would usually choose 72 pixels/inch.

Example, I chose 150 px X 150 px

Next, go to your image, left click (hold) and drag your cursor over the section of the image you require.

Double click on the highlighted area and the image will be resized to you new proportions.

Cropping using the marquee tool – re framing

Select the Marquee tool from the toolbar.

Go to your image and again, left click (hold) and drag the curser over the section of the image you would like to keep.

Once you have selected the area, choose Image > Crop and the image shall be cropped to your chosen selection. If it is still the wrong dimensions see below.