guidebranding
What to DIY and What to Pay a Designer For
Where design money actually earns its return at pre-seed, where it doesn't, and the honest line between the work worth commissioning and the work worth doing yourself.
The ICC Images Blog
Honest tool comparisons and practical guides for logo editing, color changes, and brand design — so you can pick the right tool for the job.
guidebranding
Making Your Pitch Deck Look Consistent (Logos, Screenshots, Charts)
Why a deck looks amateur even when every slide is fine on its own — and the four mechanical fixes that make forty slides read as one document.
guidehandoff
What Your Developer Actually Needs From Your Logo
The handoff spec nobody writes down: which logo file goes in which slot, why the 4 MB PNG breaks the header, what an OG image is, and the five files that end the back-and-forth.
tutorialfigma
How to Make a Duotone Image in Figma (Building One From Blend Modes)
Figma has no duotone effect. You assemble one from a desaturated image and two blended rectangles — here is the layer stack, the order that matters, and an honest account of what it costs to maintain.
tutorialphotoshop
How to Make a Logo White in Photoshop (3 Methods, One of Them Non-Destructive)
Color Overlay, Lock Transparent Pixels, and why Hue/Saturation is the wrong tool even though Lightness looks like it works — plus the fringe that makes a white logo look dirty on a dark background, and how to remove it.
tutorialcanva
How to Replace a Color in Canva (What's Possible on Elements, and What Isn't on Uploads)
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.
tutorialfigma
How to Remove a Background in Figma (There Is No Built-In Way — Here Is What Works)
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.
tutorialphotoshop
How to Make a Duotone in Photoshop (Gradient Map vs Duotone Mode)
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.
tutorialcanva
How to Make a Logo White in Canva (And Get It Out With a Transparent Background)
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.
tutorialfigma
How to Replace a Color in Figma (Selection Colors, Styles, and the Raster Dead End)
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.
tutorialphotoshop
How to Remove a Background in Photoshop (5 Methods, Ranked by What You're Cutting)
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.
guidebranding
Every Brand File You Need Before Launch (A Founder's Checklist)
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.
tutorialcanva
How to Make a Duotone Image in Canva (Presets, Custom Hexes, and the Intensity Trap)
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.
tutorialfigma
How to Make a Logo White in Figma (Vector, Raster, and the Component Case)
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.
tutorialphotoshop
How to Replace a Color in Photoshop (4 Methods, and Why the Edges Go Wrong)
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.
guidewebmcp
How to Get Your Website Ready for Google WebMCP
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.
tutorialcanva
How to Remove a Background in Canva (And What the Free Plan Actually Gives You)
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.
tutorialfigma
How to Change a Logo Color in Figma (4 Methods, Step by Step)
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.
guidetools
The Best Free Design Tools for Indie Developers
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.
guidebatch
How to Batch Recolor Images (Without Opening Each One)
Three honest ways to recolor a whole folder at once: a browser batch tool, a Photoshop action, and ImageMagick — plus which operations survive batching.
guidebranding
How to Create a Brand Style Guide (Without Overthinking It)
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.
guidetransparency
How to Fix Blurry or Fringed Edges on a Transparent PNG
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.
guidevector
How to Make a Vector Logo (and When You Actually Need One)
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.
guidesvg
SVG vs PNG for Logos: Which File Do You Actually Need?
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.
tutorialcanva
How to Change a Logo Color in Canva (4 Methods, Step by Step)
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.
tutorialphotoshop
How to Change a Logo Color in Photoshop (5 Methods, Step by Step)
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.
comparisoncanva
The Best Canva Alternative for Logo Editing (2026)
An honest comparison of ICC Images and Canva for logo editing — features, pricing, skill level, and where each one genuinely wins over the other.
comparisonfigma
Image Color Changer vs Figma: Which One Fits Your Workflow?
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.
comparisonphotoshop
The Best Photoshop Alternative for Recoloring Logos (2026)
An honest comparison of ICC Images and Adobe Photoshop for recoloring — features, pricing, skill level, and where each one genuinely wins over the other.