Automatically resizing pasted screenshot

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I am an art and design student and I use powerpoint to record my methods as
I work in Adobe Photoshop. I screenshot what I am doing in Photoshop, paste
it into powerpoint and annotate it for my tutor to read. However, the screen
shot always seems to be bigger than the slide size, meaning that for every
slide I create, I have to resize the pasted screenshot by hand. This is
somewhat tedious, as some of my method files are 30 slides long. Is there a
way to force the screenshot graphic to size itself to the slide size
automatically, so that I don't have to keep doing it myself every time?
 
Robbinsl said:
I am an art and design student and I use powerpoint to record my methods
as
I work in Adobe Photoshop. I screenshot what I am doing in Photoshop,
paste
it into powerpoint and annotate it for my tutor to read. However, the
screen
shot always seems to be bigger than the slide size, meaning that for every
slide I create, I have to resize the pasted screenshot by hand. This is
somewhat tedious, as some of my method files are 30 slides long. Is there
a
way to force the screenshot graphic to size itself to the slide size
automatically, so that I don't have to keep doing it myself every time?
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Steve's way will work but there may be another way the possibly could be
used. Would you be willing to create files of the shots automatically when
you do the print screen? If so you can use a program to capture to a file
and then create a photo album in PPT. Add captions to the photo album and
you are done. When creating the photo album in PPT the program will size
any image to the largest that will show properly on the screen and will
place one image file per slide.

I use a free screen capture program called Screen Hunter and it is available
from www.wisdom-soft.com. It can capture the active window, the entire
screen or a user selectable area and places that information into a file
with an automatically incrementing numbered file with a prefix that you
specify and into a location that you also specify.

They also have a free screen recorder that works pretty good to that I use
to demonstrate, via a movie, exactly how I accomplished a particular task on
the computer.
 
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