GUIDE

How to recolor illustrations in PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva

Published: 10月 6, 2026

How you recolor an illustration depends on the app you use. This guide explains the difference between SVG and PNG, then walks through PowerPoint, Google Slides and Canva.

First: SVG or PNG?

	SVG	PNG
When enlarged	Lines stay crisp at any size	Becomes blurry if enlarged too much
Changing colors	Some apps let you change them later	Hard to change later
Supported by	PowerPoint (Microsoft 365), Canva and others	Almost every app

When in doubt, choose the colors before you save. On FreeIconBazaar you can change the line and fill colors on each illustration’s page and then save as SVG or PNG — or give up to 10 illustrations the same colors and download them as one ZIP. The colors then stay the same in any app.

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PowerPoint

PowerPoint in Microsoft 365 can insert SVG files directly.

Choose Insert → Pictures and select the SVG file you saved
Select the illustration and pick a color with Graphics Fill on the Graphics Format tab

Graphics Fill turns the whole illustration into one color. To give the lines and the inside (the white parts) different colors, right-click the illustration, choose Convert to Shape and recolor each part. With many parts that takes a while, so when you want separate line and fill colors, recoloring on FreeIconBazaar before saving is faster and more reliable.

Google Slides

Google Slides cannot import SVG files directly, so save a PNG and insert that. Because PNG colors are hard to change later, set the colors on FreeIconBazaar first.

Change the line and fill colors on FreeIconBazaar
Pick a size (512px or 1024px) and save the PNG. Use 1024px if the illustration will be large on the slide
In Google Slides, choose Insert → Image → Upload from computer

Canva

Canva accepts SVG uploads and lets you change some colors afterwards. However, Canva limits how many colors it can change, and black fills can be hard to recolor. If your color scheme is already decided, uploading an SVG or PNG recolored on FreeIconBazaar is the reliable route.

Summary

In any app, the reliable method is to recolor before saving
PowerPoint uses SVG directly and can switch it to one color instantly
Google Slides needs PNG
Canva limits the number of colors, so decide colors in advance

To give several illustrations the same colors, select them in the list and use “Recolor together” — one step for all of them.