Making Photos Not Skew, Pixelate, distort, etc.

[KC313]

I am making some slides for work with our employees' professional pictures they had done for our business. The slides will be presented to our customers and potential customers, so the quality of the slides is EXTREMELY important.

I started making the slides, and putting the professional pictures in them. However, when I add the pictures, put the specific weighted frame around them, and try to match up the size with the template my boss made, the faces get distorted: the faces look fat, squished, fuzzy, pixelated, you name it. I've tried right clicking on the photo and going into some of the different ways you can change the photo size, height, width, etc.

My boss came over and quickly hit something on the keyboard and mouse when he put one picture over the template picture, and it was like it almost automatically sized the picture to the template WITHOUT skewing, distorting, etc. I could ask him again, but it is the weekend now, etc. (and I'm afraid of looking stupid), so I thought I'd ask here. Can someone please give me some tips, secrets, etc. to help me get these photos fixed? I tried messing around on PP yesterday for too long, and just became very, very frustrated with the whole thing.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[JohnWilson]

Exactly HOW are you adding the images (step by step)

It's not easy to distort images in 2010 so maybe your boss has made a bad template!

[KC313]

Copy and paste.

Before I started working for this company, an employee who is no longer with the company, made these slides. They aren't very cohesive, so my boss is having me re-do them: change fonts, format, etc. to make them cohesive and more professional. Some images are stand-alone, where the employee uploaded them to our document sharing system called Box.com.

For some of the bios, they already have the picture isn't the right size, (too big, too small, or not the correct height/width.).

So, when I go to make new slides or correct the ones which are a mess, most of the time it is just copy and paste. Or, I try adjusting by right-clicking the image, and go in and manually change the height and width.

Oh, and simply dragging the image to the right size by the little white blocks, (when you click on the image), is not good either. It also distorts the image.