PNG to SVG Converter
Trace a PNG, JPG or WebP into a scalable SVG. It runs entirely in your browser, so the file never leaves your computer.
This is tracing, not conversion
Worth being straight about, because the word "convert" oversells it. A PNG holds pixels and nothing else. There is no vector artwork hiding inside it to be recovered — the original paths, if they ever existed, are long gone.
What happens here is tracing: the tool finds the boundaries between colour regions and draws smooth curves around them. The result is a close redraw that scales to any size. It is not the original file, and fine detail can be smoothed away in the process.
What traces well, and what does not
Logos, icons, clip art, signatures, stamps, flat illustrations and scanned pen drawings all trace cleanly, because they are already made of a few flat regions with clear edges. That is the job this was built for.
Photographs trace badly. A photo has no flat regions — it is a continuous gradient everywhere — so tracing produces thousands of tiny shapes, an enormous file, and a blobby result that looks worse than the original at every size.
Gradients are the same problem in miniature. Each shape in an SVG gets one flat colour, so a smooth gradient becomes a few visible bands. Raising the colour count gives you more, finer bands, but a true gradient has to be recreated in a vector editor afterwards.
Start with the best original you have
Rough edges and halos in the result almost always come from the source, not the trace. A blurry, small or heavily compressed JPG has soft edges and compression noise, and the tracer faithfully follows all of it.
The tool already ignores in-between edge colours and traces small images at higher resolution to compensate, but a sharp, large original will always give smoother curves than a cleanup pass can. A logo usually lands under 20 KB; if yours is far bigger, the source is noisier than it looks.
Questions
Common questions
What does this tool do?
It turns a pixel image (PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF or BMP) into an SVG made of smooth shapes. The result stays sharp at any size, so it is handy for logos, icons, signatures and line art that you want to scale up, recolor, or cut on a plotter or cutter.
Is this a true conversion?
It is tracing. A PNG only stores pixels, so the tool has to find the edges of each color region and draw curves around them. The SVG is a close redraw of the picture, not a recovery of the original artwork, and fine details can be lost or smoothed.
How do I convert an image?
Drop an image onto the page, click the box to choose one, or paste one with Ctrl+V. Pick a Style, check the preview with the compare slider, then click Download SVG. The result updates by itself when you change any setting.
Which Style should I pick?
Color logo: flat-color logos and icons. Black & white: one color on a plain background. Line art: thin strokes such as signatures and pen sketches. Detailed: more colors and finer shapes for illustrations. If your image is only black and white, the tool starts on Black & white for you.
What works well and what does not?
Works well: logos, icons, clip art, signatures, stamps, flat illustrations and scanned black-and-white drawings. Works badly: photographs. A photo turns into thousands of tiny shapes and a very large, blobby file. If you must trace a photo, use Detailed and raise Speckle removal.
What do the Fine-tune sliders do?
Colors: how many colors the SVG may use. Threshold (black & white styles): how dark a pixel must be to count as ink. Smoothness: low keeps corners sharp, high rounds them into simpler curves. Speckle removal: higher drops more tiny stray shapes. The Style buttons set sensible values; click a Style again to put its values back.
Can I get a transparent background?
Yes, and it is the default. Remove background is on by default in every style. In Black & white and Line art it leaves only the ink, with a transparent background; untick it to get a white background shape. In the color styles it makes the plain background color transparent, including the same-colored holes inside letters such as e, o and P, so the page behind shows through them. If you want that color kept as a shape (white text knocked out of a blue badge, say), untick Remove background and delete the background shape in your editor. A PNG that is already transparent stays transparent.
The result is empty, or it traced the wrong part.
In the black & white styles, tick Invert when your image is light on a dark background, or move the Threshold. If your PNG has a transparent background, the tool traces the shape of the opaque area, so a white logo on transparent works without Invert.
The edges look rough or have a halo.
Rough edges come from the source image, not the trace: a blurry, low-resolution, or heavily compressed (JPG) picture has soft edges and noise for the tool to follow. The tool already ignores in-between edge colors and traces small images at a higher resolution, but a sharper, larger original always gives smoother curves. Also try raising Smoothness, and keep Colors close to the number of real colors in the logo.
Why does a gradient look like flat bands?
An SVG made of simple shapes can only fill each shape with one flat color, so a smooth gradient becomes a few bands. Raise Colors (or use Detailed) for more, finer bands. If you need a true gradient, recreate it in a vector editor after tracing.
My SVG is huge or messy.
Lower Colors, raise Speckle removal, or raise Smoothness. A warning appears when the file is large. Logos and icons usually come out under 20 KB; if yours is far bigger, the source image probably has gradients, noise or JPG artifacts. A cleaner, higher-resolution original helps a lot.
How do I start over?
The Reset button clears the loaded image and the result, and puts the Style and every slider back to its defaults, ready for the next image.
Is my image private?
Completely. Tracing happens inside your browser, on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, and the tool works offline.
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