Dear Dominic,

I suggest using the procedure you mentioned (changing the export resolution in the Registry Editor) – it is efficient and not as complicated as may seem.

Basically it consists of the following steps:

1. Run the Registry Editor (in Windows, click Start and type “regedit” into the Run window)

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\PowerPoint\Options (the number 14.0 applies to PowerPoint 2010, for other versions it is: 11.0 for 2003, 12.0 for 2007, 15.0 for 2016, 16.0 for 2016)

3. Right-click to create a new DWORD-Value (32-bit) and name it “ExportBitmapResolution”.

4. Right-click on the created “ExportBitmapResolution” value, choose “Decimal” and set the value to 300.

Afterwards, when you will save the PowerPoint slides as images (Save as/JPEG) the resolution will be 300 dpi.

The procedure is summarized nicely here:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjYO-uFJm88

- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/827745/how-to-change-the-export-resolution-of-a-powerpoint-slide

Best regards,

Igor

If you mean a drawing/photo that’s in a ppt, you’re unfortunately limited to the resolution of the original image.  But if you mean a vector graphic (e.g., a slide you created by using the text, shapes, etc within ppt), you can have any resolution.  When you save a slide, keep in mind you’re saving an image file (e.g., jpg, gif) and not necessarily a particular size to print or display.  So, for example, if you’re image is 100 pixels * 200 pixels and you print it 1 inch by 2 inch, your resolution will be 100 ppi (pixels per inch), but if you print the image 2 inches by 4 inches, it’s only a resolution of 50 ppi.  So basically you can just save your slide as an image and adjust the pixel dimensions of the output (save as picture > options > [adjust].  Another way to get the same effect is with page layout.  If you double your page size before exporting an image of the slide, you will have doubled the ppi/dpi.  To be even more confusing, I used ppi (pixels per inch) interchangeably with dpi (dots per inch), which most people do.  They are both measures of resolution, but ppi is related to your screen while dpi is about your printer.  Hope this helps some Dominic! ~ Kevin

Christopher J Graham I mean saving slides.

Kevin Grobman Thanks a lot!

I recently did what that post proposes, it is a little bit annoying but works well, you can export al 300 dpi instead of 96 dpi

Please see this video. The easiest way to convert PowerPoint slide to high resolution TIFF (300dpi) is shown How to Convert Powerpoint to TIFF

https://youtu.be/pd_CpCH5Jbw

First 'Save as' your ppt file in JPG with any/default DPI. Thereafter, you can upload your this JPG file to the link 'https://convert.town/image-dpi' and get JPG with improved DPI say ..300, 400, 600 etc.

Dear Dominic,

I suggest using the procedure you mentioned (changing the export resolution in the Registry Editor) – it is efficient and not as complicated as may seem.

Basically it consists of the following steps:

1. Run the Registry Editor (in Windows, click Start and type “regedit” into the Run window)

2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\PowerPoint\Options (the number 14.0 applies to PowerPoint 2010, for other versions it is: 11.0 for 2003, 12.0 for 2007, 15.0 for 2016, 16.0 for 2016)

3. Right-click to create a new DWORD-Value (32-bit) and name it “ExportBitmapResolution”.

4. Right-click on the created “ExportBitmapResolution” value, choose “Decimal” and set the value to 300.

Afterwards, when you will save the PowerPoint slides as images (Save as/JPEG) the resolution will be 300 dpi.

The procedure is summarized nicely here:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjYO-uFJm88

- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/827745/how-to-change-the-export-resolution-of-a-powerpoint-slide

Best regards,

Igor

The best solution is to change the setting of the PowerPoint in the windows registry to export images with higher resolution. It is not difficult and can be found here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/827745/how-to-change-the-export-resolution-of-a-powerpoint-slide

You can set the output to 300 DPI or any other preferable resolution.

Change the registry settings following this link:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/827745/how-to-change-the-export-resolution-of-a-powerpoint-slide

Does anyone know where to find Office 365 in the registry? I see 8.0 through 16.0 in my registry, but not 365. I tried editing the registry for 16.0, but PowerPoint is still exporting at 96 dpi. I'm guessing it's something other than 16.0.

I would suggest if you "Save As" the PowerPoint file as PDF, and then open it on Adobe Photoshop, you can use the resolution you need (even 600dpi or higher).

Under this link the explanation was very clear to me:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/save-powerpoint-slides-as-high-resolutions-images

Thank you for all

Im not a MAC user, but check if this helps!

https://www.graceunderthesea.com/thesis/save-300-dpi-figure-from-power-point-on-mac

Use this toolbox! it work perfectly to generate high-resolution images (up to 1200 DPI) and its free. The best I've ever used!

https://www.xltoolbox.net/

To anyone who doesn't use Adobe Photoship; Check the following link, it also describes simple solutions for XnView and Irfanview.

http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/changedpi.html

Igor Velkavrh Thanx Igor. It did work :)

Michael Stites , for office 365 I changed the 16.0 of the registry and worked well. Check that the 300 dpi have the base Decimal checked, sometimes that fails and hexadecimal stays checked and doesn´t save at 300 dpi

I think 300 dpi is the maximum you can get, isn't it?

Matthias Lexow , from my experience, even when in the “ExportBitmapResolution” I set the value higher than 300 (e.g. 600), the maximum resolution of the exported JPG was always 307 dpi (24 bit). I believe this is related to the PowerPoint limitations.

Yes, Igor Velkavrh, this is exactly what I meant! Thank you for confirming my thought.

Thanks to Dominic Loske for the question, and Igor Velkavrh for the simplified answer.

It worked perfectly for me, under PPT 2016 i get the exact dpi as the Decimal value i set, even for values upper than 300. However the max DPİ i got is 961.

Sami Sader‘s suggestion worked out beautifully!

Image editing programs like GIMP can allow you to change the resolution of an image.

1. With GIMP open, go to File > Open and select an image

2. Go to Image > Print Size

3. Set Image Print Resolution dialog box

4. In the X and Y Resolution fields, type in your desired resolution.

Actually inkscape is a opensource image editor. In this for production of quality images , .svg is used. .svg is an editable file. Another option is .eps file. You can save .eps file with a facility to set dpi. Generally it is recommended to set 1200 dpi for gray scale image and 1600 for color images.

Thanks, it was useful.

This video tutorial is in Portuguese and will be useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSc2ugOohs&t=2s

You don't need any other packages to do that. All you need is here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/powerpoint/change-export-slide-resolution

I suggest making figures in powerpoint, and then copy pasting to Paint.Net from windows. You can go to Image -> Resize -> and change resolution. The program is only $6.99 and totally worth the money.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/paintnet/9nbhcs1lx4r0?cid=pdn_www_download&rtc=1&wa=wsignin1.0&activetab=pivot:overviewtab

Thanks to Dominic. Changing the export resolution in the Registry Editor is a good way to increase the image resolution. However, it increases the size of image, generally greater than 5 mb for color images if saved as a Tiff format etc.

The size shouldn`t change in jpg or tiff files, however, as they have more quality files are going to be larger. The actual size of the image that can be verified in properties/details of the file, should be the same of the size set for the powerpoint file. I have noticed that when exporting to .gif files the image size changes but not for jpg or tiff.

Many thanks to Diego for detail answer.

For all those, looking for freeware options to further process the images exported from PowerPoint: IrfanView is a simple but powerful software for resizing, cropping, conversion of image-formats, etc.

Here the link to the website: https://www.irfanview.net/

Hi, my lap is 64 bit, should i pick QWORD (64bit) instead? or it is with DWORD too?

Mine is 64bit and I always choose DWORD

Andres De Sandozequi I also have a 64 bit PC as well as 64 bit PowerPoint and selecting DWORD (32-bit) works fine.

If the figure was originally made in PowerPoint, it is probably made of Windows metafile objects. You should be able to copy/paste them into the free and open-source software designed to handle vector images like InkScape - which will maintain the vectors of the objects. From there you can save it as an .svg (infinite resolution) and export it to rasterized images at the resolution you desire (e.g. PNG with 300 DPI).

For some more valuable answers you can check this similar post:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_save_Excel_graph_as_image_with_300_DPI

hummm ...

If you do not want to go via the regedit path, a stupid but extremely simple crutch: use a high resolution monitor.

Start presentation, do a screenshot, import the clipboard into any picture editor like Irvanview and voila, you get 2560x1440 or 3840x2160 pixel which is sufficient for many purposes.

Plus you can save in any format, not only as PNG like offered by ppt.

I tried all options listed here and at other places. Finally figured out an easy way of doing it is to copy-paste all your images into GIMP, set the DPI and do an export as (tiff or jpg) and save the image. Then you can crop the images.

https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.10/windows/gimp-2.10.18-setup.exe

I have the same issue while trying to save the figures in TIF format from power point, I changed the registry inputs but nothing is changed yet. now I am trying GIMP, lets see if that works ?

Watch this

🔴 Powerpoint to TIFF - High Resolution (300 DPI)

https://youtu.be/pd_CpCH5Jbw

Very good information.

To Abhay Suresh Zambare : Great idea, and well one!

Anton Vrdoljak and Muhammad Ali Khan thankyou!

An interesting idea to learn from Abhay Suresh Zambare

All this discussions is about saving a slide as a image file but how to export only one image from a slide (not the whole slide) to a high quality image of 300 dpi?

You have to set the size of the slide to the desired size (13 cm wide for 9 height for example) and then make the figure and export the full slide. Other programs such as corel allow you to export the selected image but I think that is not an option in power point.

Dwaipayan Chakraborty and Diego Raffo You can save the image first and then increase its DPI to 300 or any DPI you wish watch this video 🔴 How To Increase DPI Of An Image - TIFF ( https://youtu.be/qreaTWn0DPw )

Thanks for your suggestion @Igor Velkavrh . It is indeed not that complicated as it seems.

You're welcome Polly Soo Xi Yap, I am glad it helped.

I'm using office 365 and it has not worked so far.

On the editor

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\PowerPoint\Options

Under powerpoint I don't see options only addin. I tried creating the new dword32 values under powerpoint and addin and it didn't work. Any suggestions?

I think for office 365 you should look for the folder 16.0 after the office folder

Czar Louie Lopez Gaston for Office 365, you should select 16.0 in the Office folder (as Diego Raffo already mentioned), i.e.: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\PowerPoint\Options

Thank you diego and igor for your responses.

My registry comes out like this. Under 16.0 there is only outlook

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook

Powerpoint is under Office.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\PowerPoint\Addins

...powerpoint\options does not exist

Czar Louie Lopez Gaston, make sure you don't navigate directly to the folder Office/PowerPoint, you need to open the 16.0 folder first and then the PowerPoint folder in the 16.0 folder.

I have Office 365 as well and the Addins folder is not inside the 16.0 folder - it is in the Office/PowerPoint folder. But, if you go to Office/16.0, you should also see the folders of other Office programs such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, etc.

I'm using Office 365 and my registry does not contain 16.0 folder I have only Office folder and inside it I find Word and Outlook folder. Any help would be much appreciated. Igor Velkavrh

What I did not see yet in the discussion, so, maybe ...

If you have a high-resolution monitor you can start the presentation and do a screenshot which you can then paste into a picture editor (I use IrfanView).

In this way, with my monitor I get 2580 pixels from the width of a slide ~ 9" at 300 dpi resolution

Joseph T. Krishan that’s strange, I don’t know where the problem could be. Maybe it has to do with the administrative rights on your computer – generally, if you were able to install Office 365, you should also see the version folders (11.0, 12.0, 15.0, 16.0). Are you sure you are in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER folder?

Hi Igor Velkavrh I re-installed the application. After that I was able to tweak the registry.

Thank You.

For Mac: In PowerPoint, click Print and then choose "Save as PostScript..." Open the PostScript file in Preview. Export it as a TIFF and choose your dpi

You can directly now convert any PowerPoint slide to 300 dpi image (JPG or TIFF)

Watch This video How to Convert PowerPoint to JPEG (or TIFF) https://youtu.be/WuGRS6H0bug

It is very simple. You can save PowerPoint file as image, and then open it with IrfanView (easy to download and use ), you can change scale, size, quality and resolution (300/600dpi or higher) after this "save as" it again with other file name.

The procedure/method suggested by Igor Velkavrh works great. Thank you very much.

Thank you Igor Velkavrh , it worked like a charm.

I think you can save it in pdf format and use ps to select the resolution you want

Just a quick post to say thanks for the suggestions!

Also to mention that for Powerpoint 2013 the registry path is:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\PowerPoint\Options

Thank you.

Editing the registry is an incredible timesaving strategy to improve the quality of images.

You can do that in PowerPoint using "save as...", like "save as .tif". However, some system setup need to be modified first. Details are in this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/powerpoint/change-export-slide-resolution.