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Extract PowerPoint art to use in Adobe apps

Extract PowerPoint art to use in Adobe apps

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Extract PowerPoint art to use in Adobe apps

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- [Voiceover] Now let's talk about going the other way. What if you have a PowerPoint presentation, and you need to extract the graphics to use in all Illustrator file, Photoshop file, or an InDesign file. There are a number of different options that you can do. First of all, let's take a look at our slide show, this is the one for the Landon Hotel. There are various images placed in here that I'll talk about. Let's say that you want to extract this fun one, this smoothie picture. I click on it and I can select it and drag it around. The option is, first of all, you can just copy it and paste it if you wanted to, if you're in a hurry. With it selected, I could just go to Edit, Copy or press Command or Control + C and jump over to, say, InDesign and paste it in. So it comes in and it is an image, however, this is not the best practice, this is called a zombie image, because there's no evidence of its existence in the Links panel, and you almost always want to be able to edit this image…

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