How to resize photo to fit screen without loosing proportions?

I am in the process of creating a PowerPoint presentation and it will basically consist of photos, some text and a music background.  I want the photos to fill my computer screen, so when I am in Elements 5, I am going to Image menu and then to resize - Image Size, and changing the pixel dimensions here.  My monitor is set at 1280 x 1024 pixels and I am trying to resize my photos to 1280 x 1024 so that they will perfectly fill the entire monitor when the PowerPoint presentation is played.  The problem is that when I go to resize the photos, I have to leave the Constrain Proportions options unchecked so that I can manually and freely enter the values I want for both the Width and the Height to match my monitor dimensions.  When my photo is resized using this method, the proportions get thrown off and the picture looks a little funny.  But if I check mark the Constrain Proportions option, then I will only be able to enter a value for one of the dimensions since Elements will automatically figure the other dimension for me.  This way the proportions look fine, but the photo may not completely fill the screen the way I would like.
Is there some kind of work-around for this seeming catch-22 type of problem??
Thanks,
Lee

That's great about being able to use px (pixels) as the unit of measurement regarding the cropping tool.  I will be playing around with this.  Thanks for this great bit of information.
Real quick on my question regarding the original proportion of the photo.  I am sorry about the confusion here.  In my initial question I had mentioned how I had tried to resize my photo(s) by using the Image - Resize - Image Size command from the main menu and was not able to check the Constrain Proportions option because I needed to enter both values for the Width and Height to match my screen size in pixels.  But when I did that, I lost the original proportion of the photo and it looked funny and such.  People's faces were thinner and longer than they should have been etc...  So when you started talking about using the crop tool to get my photo to the same pixel dimensions as my screen, I am just asking if the photo can maintain its original proportions, or might I be running into the same problem I had before when I was using the Image - Resize command.  I am not talking about loosing my original photo, I am making all these changes to a copy of the original photo so my original is protected and safe.  Maybe I should be calling it the aspect ratio.  I am wondering if after I make these changes with the crop tool, can I also still maintain the original aspect ratio of the photo?  Because this was my original problem, I was contorting the photo due to the aspect ratio changing.  I hope I am using the right terms here being more clear?
Lee

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