Vectorize Image Online
Turn a raster image into real vector artwork. This tool traces the shapes and colors in your image and rebuilds them as genuine SVG paths — output you can scale to any size without losing sharpness, and edit in Illustrator, Figma, or Inkscape. It works best on logos, icons, line art, and simple illustrations with clearly defined color areas; photographs can be traced too, but will produce more complex, heavier files since a photo has no flat color regions to begin with.
How to Vectorize Image
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Upload your image
Drop a PNG, JPG, or WebP file onto the upload area, or click to browse. Best results come from images with clean, distinct color areas.
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Choose detail level
Pick how many colors to trace and how much detail to preserve. Fewer colors and lower detail give cleaner, simpler paths; more colors and detail capture finer shapes at the cost of a larger file.
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Preview and download
Review the traced result, then download it as a real .svg file — built from vector paths, ready to scale, recolor, or edit in any vector editor.
Features
- Genuine raster-to-vector tracing — real SVG path data, not an embedded raster image
- Adjustable color count and detail level
- Handles shapes with holes (like letters and rings) correctly
- Processes entirely in your browser — images never uploaded to a server
- Output is a standard, editable .svg file
- No sign-up, no watermark
Why Vectorize an Image?
Vector artwork scales to any size — a billboard or a favicon — without losing a single bit of sharpness, because it's built from mathematical paths instead of a pixel grid. That makes vectorization useful for turning a logo photo into an editable design asset, preparing artwork for laser cutting or vinyl printing, or converting a hand-drawn sketch into clean, scalable line art.
What Kind of Images Trace Best
Tracing works by finding distinct color regions in an image and converting their outlines into paths. Logos, icons, flat illustrations, and high-contrast line art trace cleanly because they're already made of a small number of solid color areas. Photographs and gradients don't have flat regions in the same way, so tracing a photo will still work, but the result is a more complex file with many small paths rather than a handful of clean shapes — that's a property of what vectorization fundamentally does, not a limitation specific to this tool.
Supported Formats
This tool accepts PNG, JPG/JPEG, WEBP files up to 10 MB per file. Process up to 5 images per batch.
Frequently Asked Questions
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This is real, genuine tracing: the tool analyzes your image's colors and shapes and rebuilds them as actual SVG path data. You can open the result in a vector editor and manipulate individual paths — that would not be possible if it were simply a raster image embedded in an SVG wrapper.
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It will produce a result, but photographs lack the flat color areas that make for clean vector art, so expect a more complex file with many small shapes rather than a few clean paths. For best results, use logos, icons, illustrations, or line art.
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Yes. Fewer colors and a lower detail setting produce simpler, smaller files with cleaner shapes. More colors and higher detail capture finer elements of the original image, at the cost of a larger, more complex SVG.
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The tracer detects enclosed holes and represents them correctly in the output path, so a ring or a letter with a counter (like O, A, or B) traces as a proper shape with a hole, not a solid blob.
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No. Tracing happens entirely in your browser using JavaScript. Your image is never sent anywhere.