If you are creating a PowerPoint presentation, you might want to go beyond the usual clip art for images to use within it. In fact, you might want to use a 35mm film scanner to take your own images and insert them into the presentation.

Whether you are using a film or photo slide scanner, it’s important to understand the best way to get scanned images into your PowerPoint presentation. The main thing you’ll want to consider is the trade-off between image size and quality. The larger the image is, the clearer and crisper the image will be. But this will also require a larger file size, something that can slow down business presentations and make them unusable.

When using a digital film scanner to insert images into your presentation, a good solution is to use high-resolution jpeg scans. While not quite as high-resolution as TIFF images, a high-res JPEG should be just fine for business presentations without slowing down the rendering time of each page.