AUTO-TRACE
Vectorize an image, right here
Vectorizing rebuilds an image as geometry — fills, curves, corners — instead of pixels. It's what print shops mean by "we need this as vector": artwork with no resolution to run out of. This tracer does it automatically with real corner detection, the step where most free tools melt your edges round.
PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP → clean SVG, right on your device
Vectorizing like it's your job
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Print has no DPI question anymore
Once vectorized, there's no 300-DPI math — the same SVG is correct at business-card and banner scale. That's the whole point of the format.
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Inspect the corners
Corners are where auto-traces fail. Zoom to 5–8× and check yours stayed sharp — corner detection is this engine's specialty, so they should.
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Scans and sketches → Ink mode
For scanned line art, Ink mode with its adaptive threshold handles uneven lighting and paper tone far better than color tracing.
Questions, answered
How does this compare to Illustrator's Image Trace?+
Same job — automatic raster-to-vector conversion. This engine (VTracer) does hierarchical color clustering with corner detection and spline fitting, produces standard SVG any tool can open, and runs free in your browser without an Adobe subscription.
Can I edit the result in Illustrator, Figma, or Inkscape?+
Yes — the output is plain SVG paths with fills, no proprietary extras. Open it in any vector editor and every shape is individually selectable and editable.
When is vectorizing the wrong move?+
Photographs you want to stay photographic. Tracing turns continuous tone into flat posterized layers — great as a stylistic choice, wrong as a reproduction. For logos, icons, lettering, and illustration, vectorizing is exactly right.
What settings should a print shop file use?+
Logo mode, Colors set to the artwork's real count, then zoom-check edges. Most print workflows take SVG directly; if EPS or PDF is demanded, Inkscape converts SVG to either in one save.