Compress Pictures Tool in PowerPoint

You can’t see it. You might not be aware that it’s happening but, when you crop a photograph in PowerPoint, the cropped areas of the image aren’t removed. In some ways, this is a good thing. If you’ve made an image too small, you can reduce the area cropped away. But, if your slide deck has a bunch of high-res photos, your presentation will be bigger than it needs to be. It might be too big to e-mail.

The Compress Pictures command in PowerPoint 2013 will reduce the file size of a picture by deleting cropped areas and adjusting the resolution of your image.

Check out this video for a demonstration of the Compress Pictures command in PowerPoint 2013.

Image credits: Featured image photograph by Petr Kratochvil via CC 1.0 license. Image used for Compress Pictures demonstration in video by La Citta Vita via CC 2.0 license.