PNG to SVG Converter - Real Vector Tracing, Free
PNG to SVG Converter
Works on flat artwork: logos, icons, silhouettes, line drawings. Not photographs. Up to 10 MB, nothing is uploaded.
This looks like a photograph. Tracing will produce thousands of shapes, a file larger than the original, and a result that looks worse than what you started with. Vectorisation only helps with flat, high-contrast artwork.
Tracing shapes…
The SVG came out larger than the original. That is the usual sign that this image is too detailed to vectorise — try fewer colours, or keep the raster file.
The image was scaled down before tracing so the page would not freeze. Vector output stays smooth at any size, so this rarely matters.
Your files stay private
The tracing runs entirely in your browser. The image is never uploaded, so logos and brand assets you have not published yet stay on your device.
About Converting PNG to SVG
Every other converter on this site moves the same pixels into a different container. This one does not. It examines the image, finds the boundaries between areas of colour, and draws new shapes that approximate what it sees. The word “convert” is doing a lot of work here — this is a redrawing, and that single fact decides whether it will work for your file.
How to convert PNG to SVG
- 1 Drop a flat PNG — a logo, icon, silhouette or line drawing.
- 2 Set how many colours to keep. Most logos look best at 2 to 6; more colours mean more shapes.
- 3 Vectorise, then download the SVG or copy the code. Expect to tidy it up in a vector editor.
Flat artwork works. Photographs do not.
Tracing needs boundaries it can follow: a red shape ending where a white one begins. Logos, icons, silhouettes and line drawings are full of those, which is why they trace cleanly. A photograph has almost none — colour changes gradually across every surface, so the tracer carves the gradient into hundreds of thin bands. The result is a file several times larger than the PNG, slow to open, impossible to edit sensibly, and visibly worse than the original. If your image is a photograph, the honest answer is that no vectoriser will help you.
What you get is a real SVG
This matters because many tools that promise PNG to SVG do something else entirely: they take your PNG and wrap it inside an SVG tag. The file ends in .svg, and it is not a vector at all — it will not scale, it cannot be recoloured, and opening it in a design tool gives you one locked rectangle. What comes out of this page is made of real path elements with real coordinates. You can scale it to a billboard, change its colours, edit individual nodes. It is an approximation of your PNG rather than a recovery of a lost original, but it is genuinely vector.
How to get a clean trace
Start from the largest, cleanest PNG you have. A screenshot of a logo carries compression noise and anti-aliased edges, and the tracer faithfully follows every wobble in them; the original export traces far better. Keep the colour count low — two or three is often enough for a logo, and every extra colour adds another layer of shapes. If the background is a colour rather than transparency, remove it first, otherwise you get a large rectangle behind everything. Finally, open the result in a vector editor and delete the stray fragments; a minute of cleanup usually separates a usable file from an almost-usable one.