If you’re looking for some of the best Google Slides themes for your presentation, here are seven sites to visit and then how to use the themes.
Creating a beautiful presentation from scratch is a daunting task, especially if you don't possess solid design skills. So, it's better to choose and customize a template than to spend hours picking the right set of colors and fonts.
Fortunately, several websites offer free Google Slides templates and themes. Here, we list the seven best sites, along with instructions on how to add templates to Google Slides.
Slidesgo has thousands of templates for Google Slides and PowerPoint presentations. All the templates are beautiful and professionally designed, with most of them having over 20 slides.
The collection features a diverse range of templates for different categories. For instance, there are presentation templates for meetings and marketing.
Templates are available in a variety of styles, including futuristic, minimalist, formal, illustration, and cool. What's better is that some templates are even available in different colors. Though most slides are in 16:9 ratio, there are other formats as well.
To find the perfect Google Slides templates, you can filter the templates by color, style, license, format, grade, and subject.
Despite being a great repository of free Google Slides templates, it does have some premium templates. Moreover, Slidesgo requires you to give credits if you’re on the free plan. In case you’re interested, Slidesgo's monthly subscription cost around $6.
SlidesCarnival is a library of presentation templates for Google Slides, PowerPoint, and even Canva.
Though SlidesCarnival has templates for different events, most of them are general purpose. So, everyone, regardless of their usage, will find these helpful. You can search for templates or filter by color, style, and topic.
Most of the templates contain 25 slides along with other resources like icons, graphs, and maps. SlidesCarnival’s collection offers a variety of colors and styles, letting you pick according to your purpose.
Since these templates are designed by an experienced interaction designer, you can expect them to be professional and well-thought-out.
SlidesCarnival is a completely free platform, allowing you to use templates for even commercial purposes. But, you’ll need to give credit to the site.
Besides having hundreds of free Google Slides templates, PRESENTATIONGO has a rich collection of graphics, diagrams, maps, and tables for presentations.
So, instead of creating charts in Google Slides by yourself, you can download them from PRESENTATIONGO.
PRESENTATIONGO offers a diverse collection of templates in terms of colors and topics. You can find templates for health, recreation, business, science, technology, and others. But most of these are multipurpose.
The templates are available for both Google Slides and PowerPoint in different aspect ratios. Though these templates are ready-to-use, you can edit the elements and icons to your liking.
PRESENTATIONGO templates are free to use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, but you’ll need to give proper attribution.
If you're looking for elegant Google Slides themes and templates, check out SlidesMania. The site features several presentation templates varying in styles and colors. These also include interactive templates and infographics.
But SlidesMania stands out by offering a ton of Google Slides templates for education. These templates include planners, certificates, choice boards, templates for educational activities, mind maps, etc.
Other than the professionally-designed templates featured on the site, SlidesMania has a section where educators can share their templates with the community.
Besides the educational presentations, SlidesMania contains multipurpose templates with different colors and styles. SlidesMania is 100% free, but giving credit is necessary.
SlideChef is a great resource for finding presentation templates for Googles Slides and PowerPoint. Whether you need templates for business, education, or the medical industry, SlideChef has got you covered.
From modern and aesthetic to cool and creative, the templates come in a variety of styles. These templates are either multipurpose or focused on a special event or theme.
Other than presentation templates, you can find templates for posters and flyers. SlideChef is free to use, with no sign-up required.
As the name suggests, GoogleSlidesThemes is a collection of various beautiful themes for Google Slides. Since it has quite a large library of templates, you can find slides for nearly any purpose.
To make your search simpler, you can search by color, category, or tag. GoogleSlidesThemes also has a separate section for featured and latest themes, so you can choose a great, new template quickly.
Each theme contains a good number of slides. You can download these templates as PDF or PPT and copy them to Google Slides.
SlidesGala has a large collection of multipurpose Google Slides templates. It offers a variety of templates that can be used for business, personal, and creative presentations.
But there are no templates for specific uses, like templates for marketing plan. You can browse by style and download/copy these editable templates.
Now that you’ve found several sources for finding Googles Slides themes and templates, let’s see how you can add them to Google Slides. There are three ways you can do so, so let’s discuss all of them.
The quickest way to add these templates to Google Slides is to copy them directly from the website you found them on. Most templates websites have a Google Slides button.
Click the Use on/Copy to Google Slides button, and it’ll redirect you to Google Slides. Click on the Make a Copy button, and your chosen template will be added to a new Slides presentation. This way, Google Slides copies all the content and design of the template.
If the site doesn't have a Google Slides button, or you have the template as a PPT file, you can import the slides to Google Slides.
This way, all the content of the template will be copied to your presentation along with the theme. But if you unchecked the Keep Original Theme box, the current theme of your presentation will be applied.
Let’s say you’ve got your presentation ready but only want to change the theme (colors, fonts, etc.). In this case, you can only import the theme, which will be applied to the existing content of your presentation.
The theme will be applied to your presentation.
Whether you struggle with designing presentations or are short on time, it’s a good idea to download a template from these sites.
This way, you can get professionally designed templates and a few more hours to spend on improving the content of your presentation.
Still unfamiliar with Google Slides? Here’s how you can create a basic presentation from start to finish.
Born and based in Pakistan, Syed Hammad Mahmood is a writer at MakeUseOf. Since his childhood, he has been surfing the web, finding tools and tricks to make the most out of the latest technologies. Besides tech, he loves football and is a proud Culer.
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