Works best for logos, icons, and line art. Photos produce rough results.
Click to browse or drag & dropPNG or JPG · Max 20 MB
Options
Mode
Color Count: 8
4 (fewer colors)16 (more colors)
Detail: 50
More DetailSmoother
Result
Original
SVG Result
Paths—
SVG size—
SVG Markup
About Image Vectorizer
Image Vectorizer converts raster images (PNG, JPG) into scalable SVG vector graphics directly in your browser using the open-source ImageTracerJS library. Because all processing happens locally on your device, your image data never leaves your computer.
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) files can be scaled to any size without pixelation, making them ideal for logos, icons, and illustrations. Unlike raster formats, an SVG is a text file describing geometric shapes — it prints crisply at any resolution and can be edited with a code editor or vector drawing program.
Best results: simple logos, icons, line drawings, and images with solid flat colours. Photos and gradients produce a large number of paths and less clean results — use the B&W mode or reduce the colour count for cleaner output on complex images.
Frequently Asked Questions
Simple logos, icons, clip art, line drawings, and images with clearly defined areas of solid colour produce the cleanest SVG output. The tool traces colour regions and converts them to filled paths — the fewer distinct colours and the sharper the edges, the better the result. Photographs typically generate thousands of paths and produce rough SVG output because they contain subtle gradients and millions of tiny colour variations.
Black & White mode traces the image as a two-colour bitmap — a filled dark layer on a light background. This produces very compact SVGs and is ideal for logos, stamps, QR codes, and hand-drawn sketches you want to outline. Colour mode traces multiple colour regions using 4–16 palette entries. Use Colour mode for coloured logos, icons, or illustrations; use fewer colours to keep the SVG simple.
The smoothing slider controls how closely the traced paths follow the pixel boundaries. At "More Detail", path nodes are placed frequently, preserving sharp corners and fine detail at the cost of a larger SVG file. Towards "Smoother", fewer nodes are used — curves become rounder and the file is smaller, but fine details may be lost or rounded off. For logos with text, stay closer to "More Detail".
No. The entire conversion runs inside your browser using the ImageTracerJS library. Your image is read into browser memory via the File API, converted to an object URL, and processed in JavaScript — no network request carrying image data is made. You can verify this by opening your browser's DevTools Network tab while using the tool.
Large or complex images — especially photographs — generate SVGs with thousands of paths, which makes processing slower and the file much larger than the original. If that happens: (1) try Black & White mode instead of Colour, (2) reduce the colour count, (3) move the Smoothing slider toward "Smoother", or (4) use a simpler, lower-resolution version of your image. The tool automatically downscales images wider or taller than 2000 px to 50% before tracing to keep processing time reasonable.
Yes. SVG is an XML text format, so you can open it in any text editor or vector graphics application. Free tools like Inkscape or the web-based Vectr allow you to select, move, recolour, and delete individual paths. The SVG code is also shown directly in the markup panel so you can copy and paste it into HTML, CSS, or an <img> tag.
