How to convert PowerPoint slides into images for Free

While many of you know how to extract images from a PPT file, what if you want to export individual slides as images, the photos will look like you took a screenshot of each slide. The good thing is that Microsoft Office PowerPoint offers an inbuilt way to convert any PowerPoint Slide or Slides into images.

Note: Depending on which version of Office you are using, it may slightly differ.

How to convert PowerPoint slides into images

Open PowerPoint file, and then click on File
Click on Save As. It will open a screen full of options on how you can save the file.
On the right, look for a dropdown which is next to the Save button.
Click on the dropdown and select either PNG or JPEG or TIFF or any other image format.
Next, click on the Save button, and it will instantly prompt if you want to export all the slides or the one which is selected.
Select the destination, and your slide will be available as images.

It also means, if you select a few slides before coming to Save as Prompt, you will be able to save only selected slides as images.

Here is how you can do it in the previous version of Office.

Office PowerPoint 2010

Go to Back Stage >Save and Send > Change File Type
Select PNG or JPEG as File Types
You can opt if you want to save them as single or one for each slide.

Office PowerPoint 2007

Open the PowerPoint presentation (PPT or PPS).
Go to File > Save As > Other formats
Now you will see a lot of options for in the combo box. Select the JPEG format and save it.
It will save all your files into a folder with the same name as your PPT or PPS name.

We hope the tutorial was easy to understand, and you were able to convert PowerPoint slides into images using Office.

7 COMMENTS

bonie February 12, 2010 At 8:13 am

hi! thanks for the information now i can convert my presentation to a jpeg (picture format) thanks for the post.. owe you alot…
EMF February 19, 2010 At 1:00 am

Thank You for the information!!! I think I will have to upgrade.
I have 2003, and I do not have the option of the JPeg under Save As, unless I am doing one slide at a time, select all, save as then I can get a JPeg option.
I have a lot of data on mine that I wanted to go along with the slide.I had 300 plus slides that I wanted to get into My Pictures so they would be picked up by Photo Elements.
I have not however been able to save the background at all, which is a bummer, but I have accomplished getting everything else by clicking Select All, Save As, My Pictures.( One at a Time) Much too time consuming!! But with this you can get all of your photo’s in my case, into Photo Elements.
Any more info for me would be appreciated.
EMF February 19, 2010 At 5:00 am

Probably the more accurate way to say what I meant was that I have a lot of inserted text and inserted clip art and such that I would like to go with the slide when it is inverted into an image, so It will be picked up by Photo Elements after it gets into “My Pictures”. I can only do it one at a time.
ak May 4, 2010 At 8:45 pm

thanks yaar!
Kevin Kane December 2, 2010 At 10:15 pm

In PowerPoint 2010:

Go to File (not BackStage)> Save and Send > Change File Type

Thanks!
Ayyub Khan October 11, 2012 At 10:30 pm

thnx dear….
Catherine February 5, 2013 At 5:22 pm

I’m losing clarity of the original ppt slide when I save as an image; how can clear detail be retained?