Graphics help

[jelazakazone]

Does anyone know how to make a slide with just text the size of a photo (4X6)?  I'm asking for my mom who has no idea how many pixels.  Can someone help us?  She uses a Mac.  If there is an easy way to do this in GIMP, I could do this for her.

Comments

[celandineb]

How many pixels it will be will depend on your screen resolution or printer resolution. I think a decent printer resolution is 300x300, which would be 1200x1800 pixels for the slide.

Can't help with the actual making, though, being Not a Mac Person.

[jelazakazone]

Ok. Thanks. I think I might have an answer.

[argentla]

Slide for what? PowerPoint? To print to an actual slide?

A very simple way is to just do it in Word. Create a new document, create a 4x6 text box, put the text in it, select the entire text box, copy it. Go to a blank document and hit Edit --> Paste Special and select Image. That will turn the selection into a bitmap image of the same dimensions (not editable).

[jelazakazone]

No. Not for PP. She's doing a slide show in iPhoto and wants to have "pictures" that say the name of the trip (like "Cambodia") so there is a transition from one trip to the next. Does that make sense?

I will see if I can do what you say later. I can't make any sense of it right now, but that is probably not you.

[argentla]

Er, Paste Special --> Picture, not Image.

If you do that with a text box, it'll even let you decide what type of picture you want to paste it as. If it were for print, PNG would be the best bet; for an iPhoto presentation, it probably doesn't matter.