scanned pictures not actual size

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I scanned a picture of my baby's feet and handprints. Next I created a powerpoint slide and inserted the feet and hands to the slide.

When I print the slide, the feet and hands are much bigger than their actual size. WHY??? How can I get the slide to keep the picture the ACTUAL size of the feet?

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Sound like you are having resolution issues. What was the resolution of the scan in pixels per inch ( ppi)? Most monitors are only set to display 72 or 96 ppi while it is possible you are scanning at a much higher resolution, like 150 or 300 ppi (or even higher). This makes the picture display larger a screen than it would print.
The solutions? Check out your scanner information and set the resolution value accordingly.

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I scanned a picture of my baby's feet and handprints. Next I created a powerpoint
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slide and inserted the feet and hands to the slide.
When I print the slide, the feet and hands are much bigger than their actual size.
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WHY??? How can I get the slide to keep the picture the ACTUAL size of the feet?

Measure the picture to determine the size you need
Import the scanned image of the picture into PowerPoint
Rightclick the image and choose Format Picture from the popup menu
On the Size tab of the Format Picture dialog box, make sure there's a check next to
"Lock aspect ratio" then enter either the height or width of the original picture as
you measured it earlier.
Click OK.

Now choose File, Print; make sure that there's NO checkmark next to "Scale to fit
paper"

PowerPoint should print the image at the correct size.


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Thanks, but the feet still aren't printing at their true size value. These are a pair of baby feet stamped on to paper and then scanned into the computer. Therefore it may be difficult to actually get a true measure of them and change their value as you suggested, due to various toes' height, etc. Any other ideas?.
 
Thanks, but the feet still aren't printing at their true size value. These are a pair of
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baby feet stamped on to paper and then scanned into the computer. Therefore it may be
difficult to actually get a true measure of them and change their value as you suggested,
due to various toes' height, etc. Any other ideas?.

In other words, you have the scans but not the original paper?
The problem is that scanned images don't have any particular size. Some image file formats
can carry size information that the scanning software may or may not include, some don't.

If you know that the images will always be scanned in the same way, with the same settings,
by the same software, then you could pretty easily scan a test paper - say a printed
rectangle of known size, approx the same size as the footprints you'll be working with -
then use that scanned image the way I've described to "calibrate" your system.

Instead of plugging in the sizes in the formatting dialog box, you'll dial in percentages
until the size is what you know it should be (ie, the size of the original rectangle).

Then when you bring in further scans, you'd just have to enlarge or reduce them by the same
percentage before printing.

Of course, if somebody changes the way they scan the images, that'll throw everything off.

Another approach might be to put an inch/cm scale on the paper the footprints are being
stamped onto (or just on the scanner glass) and scan it along with the footprint. Enlarge
the image so that 4" on the scale = 4" in PPT and you're good to go.

If you have many of these to do, this is probably something that could be automated.


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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