Guides for better slides
Tips for making clearer documents with illustrations: how to place them, match their colors and work with them in your favorite apps.
5 tips for adding illustrations to your slidesToo many illustrations, or ones in mixed sizes, make a document harder to read. Five practical tips on how many to use, how big, how much space, and how to keep styles and colors consistent.
How to recolor illustrations in PowerPoint, Google Slides and CanvaSVG versus PNG, PowerPoint’s Convert to Shape, Google Slides’ lack of SVG support and Canva’s color limit — step-by-step ways to match illustration colors to your slides in each app.
How to match illustration colors to your slide designWhy illustrations can look out of place, and how to use your brand colors to fix it — choosing line and fill colors, and giving several illustrations the same colors at once.
Using illustrations in work manuals and step-by-step guidesIn a manual, an illustration should show what to do at a glance, not decorate the page. Practical points: one step, one picture; when to show an action or a tool; and how to highlight cautions.
Line, Simple or Rounded: choosing an illustration styleEvery FreeIconBazaar subject comes in three styles. How to pick the right one for your purpose and audience, and why one document should stick to one style.
Keeping illustration styles consistent in AI-made slidesSlides made with generative AI often end up with a different drawing style on every page. Why that happens, and how to keep a document consistent by working from one matching illustration set.