4 FREE Tools to Improve Your Next Presentation!
About this video
Su shows how four free websites lift a PowerPoint or Google Slides deck from amateur to polished, based on his consulting experience. For templates, SlidesCarnival offers free downloadable PowerPoint files and Google Slides themes, including diagrams and icons, usable commercially with credit; he contrasts it with Slidesgo’s monthly free limit and Slides’ sparse gallery. For colour, Color Hunt provides ready-made palettes whose hex codes can be pasted as custom colours throughout a deck, including hard-to-click elements via Edit Theme, while ColorSpace generates palettes around one dominant colour you supply — with a reminder to respect company brand rules for external decks. For images he skips Google Images in favour of Unsplash for high-resolution photos, with Pexels and Pixabay as alternatives, and suggests darkening background photos slightly so text stands out. For icons, Flaticon is his favourite, with The Noun Project offering more formal black-and-white designs. A bonus tip points to Typewolf for font inspiration, checking availability under More Fonts in Slides, and he advises bookmarking the tools and checking each site’s licensing terms.
Key takeaways
- Start from SlidesCarnival templates instead of a blank deck; credit required
- Apply one Color Hunt palette via hex codes; use ColorSpace around a hero colour
- Use Unsplash, Pexels or Pixabay for high-resolution images, not Google Images
- Add icons from Flaticon, or The Noun Project for formal decks
- Darken background photos so text pops; check licences and brand guidelines
Episode details: published September 21, 2021 · 7:35 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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