PNG → SVG
☞ runs entirely in your browser — nothing is uploadedDrop your PNG here
or click to browse — PNG only
Before and after
The image was scaled down to 2000px before tracing to keep it responsive.
OneImageTool
Free Image Tools
PNG → SVG
Turn a flat PNG — a logo, an icon, a piece of line art — into real vector paths that stay sharp at any size.
or click to browse — PNG only
Before and after
The image was scaled down to 2000px before tracing to keep it responsive.
what tracing can and cannot do
The tracer groups pixels into a small number of colours and then draws an outline around each region. For a logo, an icon or line art that is exactly right: flat areas of colour become clean shapes, and the result scales to a billboard without softening.
A photograph has no flat regions, so the same process turns it into stacked bands of colour — a poster effect rather than a faithful copy. That can be a nice look on purpose, but if you need the photo itself, keep it as a PNG.
three steps
The file stays on your device.
Fewer colours give cleaner shapes and a smaller file.
Both versions sit side by side so you can judge the result.
quick answers
Because that is what tracing does to continuous tone. The image is reduced to a handful of flat colours and each one becomes a shape, so gradients turn into visible bands. Tracing suits logos, icons and line art; a photograph is better left as a raster image.
Too many colours, or detail set too high — each combination of the two multiplies the number of paths. Try eight colours at medium detail first, and run the result through the SVG optimizer, which usually removes another large chunk.
Tracing follows the pixels it can see, so text below roughly 20px has too little to work with. If the original text exists somewhere as text, it is always better to set it again in a vector editor than to trace it.
No. It is a deterministic edge tracer: the same image with the same settings always gives the same paths, and nothing is invented that was not in the pixels. That also means it will not clean up or reinterpret a messy scan for you.
No. The tracer runs in your browser and the image never leaves your device.