Why is PowerPoint making my images blurry?

When adding images from your hard drive to a slide, PowerPoint compresses them automatically unless you tell it not to do that. If you save the file, work on it and save it again, PowerPoint compresses the images again. If you keep repeating this process, your images’ quality will slowly degrade with each save.

How do you keep the quality of a picture in PowerPoint?

In PowerPoint 2016 and newer versions, the default image resolution is already set to high fidelity. To change the default resolution to high fidelity in Word or Excel (version 2016 or newer): Click File > Options > Advanced. Under Image Size and Quality, select High fidelity in the Default resolution list.

How do you make a picture clear in PowerPoint?

Method 1 for making a picture transparent

1. Insert your picture and selected it.
2. Go to the Picture Format tab > Colors.
3. In the drop-down menu, select the option Set Transparent Color.
4. Now all you have to do is click on the color you want gone! PowerPoint will immediately make all that same color transparent.

How do I stop images from being distorted in PowerPoint later?

To avoid distortion, just drag using SHIFT + CORNER HANDLE–(No need to even check if the image is proportionally locked):

1. To maintain proportions, press and hold SHIFT while you drag the corner sizing handle.
2. To keep the center in the same place, press and hold CTRL while you drag the sizing handle.

How do you stop pictures from being blurry in PowerPoint?

On the File menu, select Options > Advanced. Under Image Size and Quality, you can tell PowerPoint (2013/2016 and Office 365) to compress all images in the file or not, and by how much.

How do you Unblur a picture in PowerPoint?

Under the Picture option, select Picture Corrections> Sharpness/ Softness. Increase the Sharpness level to unblur the image.

How do you increase picture quality?

Increasing image quality using Super Resolution.

1. Open your image in Lightroom.
2. Choose Photo > Enhance.
3. Select Super Resolution.
4. Click Enhance. Lightroom will increase your image resolution and save it as a new DNG file. Any previous edits you’ve made to your new high-resolution photo will be included.

Why does my PowerPoint look stretched?

Right click on an image and select Size and Position. From this dialog, click in the Height box. Now, just click up once and down once. As long as the Lock Aspect Ratio checkbox is checked, just changing the scale by 1 step and then switching back will fix your image.

Why is my PowerPoint distorted?

That can be fixed either by installing an updated Windows 10 video driver (if one is available), or by choosing File>Options>Advanced, scrolling to the Display section and checking Disable Slide Show hardware graphics acceleration.

Why is my video pixelated in PowerPoint?

To do this in PowerPoint, go to File > Options > Advanced, and then under Display, make sure the Disable hardware graphics acceleration checkbox is clear. Check that there’s enough free disk space on the device that you’ll deliver your presentation on. Change the color depth setting to 16-bit.

How can I enhance a blurry photo?

1. 5 Tricks to Enhance Blurry Pictures.
2. Sharpen Out-of-Focus Photos with the Sharpness Tool.
3. Improve the Image Quality with the Clarity Tool.
4. Accentuate an Object with the Adjustment Brush.
5. Make a Certain Area Stand Out with the Radial Filter.
6. Increase Sharpness With the Graduated Filter.

Why do my PowerPoint presentations look fuzzy?

It’s also possible that a perfectly good image, at an appropriately-high resolution, was inserted in the PowerPoint file, but the next time it is opened the image looks fuzzy. In this case, the document’s author (or someone who has edited the presentation and passed it on) has likely set the file to compress images each time it’s saved.

Why are the pictures in my PowerPoint presentation blurry?

When you save presentations in PowerPoint 2007/2010/2011 (Mac)/2013 then open them again in any version, the pictures in your presentation are blurry or less sharp than when you first inserted them. In some cases, your animated GIFs may lose their animation. The same thing happens in Word 2007/2010/2013 and the fix is the same.

Why are the pictures used in my PowerPoint presentation low quality?

But very often, we see that the quality of the pictures used are low. Unexpected because, it were a high resolution images when you inserted them into the slide. There is a bad habit of PowerPoint to compress all images by default! Yes, you read correct.

Why is my PowerPoint image file size so large?

Microsoft cautions that your file sizes may become very large if you disable image compression. PowerPoint’s sharpening tool can’t decompress images that it has already compressed, but it can help you make fuzzy images clearer. Sharpen a picture by right-clicking it and selecting “Format Picture” to open the Format Picture dialog window.