Learn how to quickly and easily adjust pictures in odd sizes to your widescreen PowerPoint slide – right in PowerPoint.
Pictures that cover the whole slide look clean and beautiful. They come in quite handy when you want to evoke emotions in your audience.
However, most photos come at odd sizes that don’t fit the default slide dimensions (especially, when you want to use the 16:9 format in PowerPoint 2013 version).
When you stick such odd sized pictures on your slides, the empty spaces on the sides look ugly and unprofessional like this:
Sometimes, you can’t crop the photos to fit the 16:9 dimension, because you may lose a few key details from the picture.
Here are a couple of examples where this would happen:
Some presenters use the trick of extending the photos. This makes the slides look very unprofessional.
How do you overcome the issue?
How do you use such photos without leaving those uncomfortable empty spaces on the side? How do you ensure the result looks professional?
Step 1: Create copy of photo
Make copies of the photo. Use the crop tool in the ‘Format’ tab of PowerPoint ribbon to retain just a thin strip from the sides of the photo as shown below:
As you can see, I made two copies of the photo to retain the right and left edges of the photo.
Step 2: Create Photo Extensions
Select each of the thin strips. Go to the ‘Arrange’ tool in the Home tab of PowerPoint ribbon. Click on the small arrow to open the drop down menu. In that select Rotate → Flip Horizontal.
Now, place those flipped strips at either sides of your original photo to fill the empty space as shown below:
The end result would look as clean as this:
Here is the before and after slides –
Your audience would never be able to guess that you did any sort of manipulation to the original picture.
They’ll just keep wondering about how you manage to get such beautiful pictures in the exact slide dimension each time.
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