If you’re using any of the typical slide dimensions like Standard (4:3) or Widescreen (16:9), typically the safe dimension is 1024px x 768px and 1280px 720px respectively. You can do this by accessing the ‘slide size’ in the ‘design’ tab.ī) Enter ‘Page Setup’ when navigating into ‘Slide Size’ to identify the dimensions of each slide. a) The first step is to determine the max dimensions of your slide. It involves ‘pre-cropping’ the images you plan to insert into your presentation even before you try any of the methods before this. This step is most commonly overlooked by most executives simply because it’s pretty tedious. Image Compression Method 2: Optimize the dimensions of your presentation images before inserting into PowerPoint Tools like Tinyjpeg, Tinypng and Smallpdf are great to reduce the size of your files without installing any additional applications on your machine. Image Compression Method 1: Reduce the size of images losslessly using browser applications