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Best image file types to use in PowerPoint

Best image file types to use in PowerPoint

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Best image file types to use in PowerPoint

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- [Instructor] I'm Joel Simmons, AKA the presentation guy. All right so lets jump into today's lesson about the best image types to use in PowerPoint. Okay so lets take a look at these two logos. They may look pretty close when zoomed out, but when you zoom in you can really see a huge difference between the two. Imagine what that first logo will look like when it's projected on a huge screen. It looks absolutely horrible. This is because it's a rasterize image. Now take a look at the second one. It looks great because this is a vector image. Images like JPEGs, PNGs, and TIFs, are examples of raster images. They can work well in most situations, but they're not really that flexible. Now they're perfect for static images like photos, or maybe small logos if they're high resolution enough, but the moment you try to scale a tiny logo up even a little bit, you are headed for disaster. Now the left one's pretty bad, but look at the one on the right. It looks pretty good. This is a PNG…

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