We’re going to go under the assumption that this file will be projected from PowerPoint at 1920×1080 resolution.

These settings should be your default for widescreen HD content. We need to manually set up our files to be sure our graphics are the right size for the PowerPoint file. The best way I’ve cobbled together is to round trip individual slides to and from Photoshop through PowerPoint using PDF’s and Illustrator. The Macintosh based presentation designer isn’t so lucky. Photoshop Import lets you import FROM and export TO Photoshop with all Photoshop layers separated for fast easy and precise formatting all within PowerPoint no jumping back and forth between applications necessary. These cut and paste methods provide no way of getting editable content back and forth between the two programs and force you to do some manual image placement.īut on the Windows platform there’s an answer to this: pptXTREME’s Photoshop Import. The number of steps necessary to make this possible is substantial and you have limited capabilities. I say bump in the road because that’s just what it is, an annoyance! It’s easily, though tediously, possible to get snapshots of layers into PowerPoint using “copy merged” or “Save as PNG”.

But the one thing that is always a bump in the road for me is getting custom designed Photoshop layers into PowerPoint. The tools available and the workflow built into the CC suite make designing and producing marketing materials both intuitive and collaborative. Photoshop is a presentation professionals’ best friend. You’ll need: Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, PowerPoint and Photoshop for this Mac centered conversation. This is not an easy process but, it works mostly – kinda. Use the tools you have to get editable layers of content in and out of PowerPoint from Photoshop on the Mac OS.

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