Honest tool comparisons and practical guides for logo editing, color changes, and brand design — so you can pick the right tool for the job.
Canva can swap colors on vector elements one swatch at a time. On an uploaded photo or PNG there is no per-color control at all — here is the full picture, including the Duotone approximation and its limits.
Figma has no background removal feature. The honest options are a third-party plugin that uploads your image to its vendor, or a hand-drawn vector mask — plus when each is actually the right call.
Photoshop has two duotone features and the one named Duotone is usually the wrong one. Why Image > Mode > Duotone demands a Grayscale conversion, why Gradient Map is what you actually want, and how to keep it editable.
Four ways to turn a logo white in Canva — color tiles on vector, Duotone on a PNG, the Screen blend mode, and uploading a ready-made white version — plus the export setting that decides whether any of it survives.
Swapping one specific color across a Figma file — the Selection colors panel, color styles, and find-and-replace plugins — plus an honest account of why it is impossible on a placed image.
Remove Background, Select Subject, Select and Mask, the Pen tool and the Channels trick — which one suits hair, which suits a hard-edged logo, and how to kill the halo the automatic methods leave behind.
The logo variants, favicon sizes, OG image and social crops a new company actually gets asked for in its first month — what each one is, why it exists, and how to produce it from one file.
Canva's Duotone effect in full — where it hides, how to set custom highlight and shadow colors, why Intensity below 100 stops you hitting a brand hex, and what it does to a logo with a background.
Three routes to a white logo in Figma — the Fill row, Selection colors across a whole lockup, and a Screen-blended rectangle for placed PNGs — plus why the exported white logo looks invisible when you check it.
Replace Color, Hue/Saturation on a targeted range, Color Range plus a fill layer, and Selective Color — which to use when, and why a recolored logo keeps a halo of the old color along its edges.
A step-by-step guide to exposing WebMCP tools on your site — the imperative and declarative APIs, how to test them, and the real security downsides.
Canva's BG Remover is a paid feature — and so is downloading the result with transparency. Here is what works on a free account, what the two separate paywalls are, and how to get a clean cut-out either way.
A complete guide to recoloring a logo in Figma — the Fill row, the Selection colors panel that swaps one hex everywhere at once, the clipped-rectangle trick for placed PNGs, and why the export panel has no WebP.
A working set of free design tools for developers shipping solo — UI, icons, fonts, colour, illustration and asset prep — with the real free-tier limits.
Three honest ways to recolor a whole folder at once: a browser batch tool, a Photoshop action, and ImageMagick — plus which operations survive batching.
How to build a brand style guide people actually use: the six sections that matter, what goes in each, and the mistakes that make it a document nobody opens.
Why your transparent PNG has a white halo, a grey fringe or soft edges — the four real causes, how to tell them apart in seconds, and the fix for each.
What vector really means, the three honest routes from where you are now, when auto-tracing works, and how to check the result is genuinely vector.
What SVG and PNG really are, where each one wins, why your developer keeps asking for the SVG, and the three files that cover almost every request.
How to recolor a logo in Canva: the toolbar colour tiles, uploading an SVG so they appear, Duotone for flat PNGs — and the export settings that ruin it.
How to recolor a logo in Photoshop: Hue/Saturation, Color Overlay, clipped fill layers, Replace Color and vector logos — plus the export traps to avoid.
An honest comparison of ICC Images and Canva for logo editing — features, pricing, skill level, and where each one genuinely wins over the other.
An honest comparison of ICC Images and Figma — features, pricing, target users and skill level — to choose between a focused editor and a design platform.
An honest comparison of ICC Images and Adobe Photoshop for recoloring — features, pricing, skill level, and where each one genuinely wins over the other.