Vectorize an Image to SVG
Vectorize a logo, an icon or a line drawing into an SVG — a file of shapes that scales to any size without ever pixelating. Nothing is uploaded.
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Why use this tool
- No file size limit
- Nothing is uploaded
- No signup needed
A JPG or PNG is a grid of pixels: enlarge it and the pixels show. An SVG is a list of shapes described mathematically, redrawn crisply at any size — from a 16-pixel favicon to a printed shopfront.
Going from one to the other is called vectorizing, and it is not a straight conversion: something has to decide where the shapes are. That is why the result is excellent on a flat logo and disappointing on a photograph, and this page says so rather than letting you find out.
How to convert an image to SVG
Drop in your image
A logo, icon, pictogram or line drawing, as JPG, PNG or WEBP. The cleaner the flat areas of color, the better the trace.
Choose the level of detail
Line art for black and white, Logo for artwork in a few colors, Detailed when more are needed. Fewer colors gives cleaner shapes.
Check it, then download
The SVG is shown enlarged on a checkerboard so you can judge the trace before downloading it.
What vectorizes well
Artwork made of flat areas: logos, icons, pictograms, monograms, line drawings, stamps, silhouettes. Tracing finds genuine edges in these, and the file that comes out is often the same size as the PNG that went in, or smaller.
On a flat logo measured here, the trace produced about seventy shapes and a file comparable to the original PNG — and it then enlarges indefinitely without losing an edge.
Black and white is the best case of all. On the Line art setting the tracer has only two colors to separate, and the outlines it produces are the cleanest this tool can make.
What does not vectorize
A photograph. A gradient, skin, a sky or foliage have no outlines, so vectorizing has to invent boundaries where none exist, and the result is a mosaic of flat patches.
This is measurable. The same photograph tested here produced over two and a half thousand shapes and a file half again as large as the PNG — for a picture that no longer resembles the original.
The tool warns you when it happens: past a few hundred shapes a message explains that the picture was a photograph and the file will be large. No vectorizer does better; that is the nature of the problem, not a shortcoming of this one.
Why an SVG
Because it never pixelates. One file serves as a 16-pixel favicon and as large-format print, with no need to export ten different sizes.
Because it is small, when the artwork suits it: a vectorized logo often fits in a few kilobytes, which makes the page it sits on faster.
And because it stays editable. An SVG is text, and opens in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma or a code editor, where colors can be changed one at a time.
What tracing produces
Measured on the images tested for this page.
| Input | Shapes produced | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Flat-color logo | ~70 | Excellent, file comparable to the PNG |
| Line art, 2 colors | Few | The cleanest case |
| Photograph | 2,500 and up | Mosaic of patches, heavy file |
When people convert an image to SVG
A logo that only exists as a PNG
The last surviving file of a brand, re-vectorized into something that scales again.
An icon for a website
A pictogram turned into an SVG, crisp on every screen and lighter to load.
A scanned line drawing
A sketch or stamp taken into vector form so it can be edited in a drawing program.
Artwork for large-format print
A simple shape prepared for signage or vinyl, with no size limit.
