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How to compress PowerPoint presentations and reduce picture file size

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Including high-quality images and videos often adds hugely to audience engagement, but it also adds file size. Adding to your file size means that your presentation is likely to sit on the unfriendly size of email etiquette, but it also means your PowerPoint will run a lot slower (and it may crash – see this article for more on that ).

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How to Reduce the File Size of your eLearning Images

LearnUpon

Do you find that the file sizes of your courses are huge? To overcome this you need to reduce the size of the mixed media elements within your courses. One quick way to achieve this is to use image compression to reduce the size of the images you are using. . Compressing images reduces the file size of an image.

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Unravelling PowerPoint picture size and resolution

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So what do presentation professionals need to know about picture size and resolution? Pictures are made of dots. A raster or bitmap picture (contrary to a vector image) is made up of thousands of tiny dots or pixels. Each of these dots is a single colour and the number of dots affects the file size of the picture.

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Is YouTube Actually The World’s Biggest LMS platform?

eLearningMind

It is cognitively easier to process information presented to the brain in picture format than in any other format, and our brains love that about video. Worldwide, 100 countries have localized versions of YouTube and it is available in over 80 languages. . They say people are 1200% more engaged by video than other mediums.

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Want to Create the Best Responsive Courses? Follow These Best Practices

Trivantis

(I use my phone to take a lot of pictures of my cat, as loyal Everything eLearning Blog readers have probably noticed.). That 500MB HD video that looked so great on the desktop version of your course just takes too long to download on your student’s phone to be useful. File size isn’t the only thing you want to cut down on.

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How to print multiple slides on one page

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This may be because the file size is huge. A 27MB PowerPoint file turned into a 101MB Word file. This may be because the slides aren’t pictures, but objects, so they are a live representation of the slides in the PowerPoint file, including all the high resolution images and even videos that you don’t need in a handout.

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PowerPoint 2008 for the Mac: Give a Presentation From Your iPod

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Note: In addition to an an iPod/iPod Touch/iPhone, you will also need  iPhoto version 6 or later to complete this activity. When the Send to iPhoto dialog box opens, ensure your options match the picture below. In this instance you are choosing JPEG because of its relatively small file sizes.

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