Turn a JPG drawing, scan or logo into an SVG vector, with smoothing for JPEG noise
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Checked against sources on 22 Oct 2026.A JPG of a logo or a scanned drawing has soft, noisy edges, so this page starts with 4 colours and light smoothing, which turns the noise into clean shapes. Raise the smoothing for a rougher scan, or remove the plain background around the drawing. The preview updates as you change anything, and the SVG is traced again at full size when you download it. Nothing is uploaded.
Drop your files or click to choose them.
Adjust the options and check the preview.
Download the result. Nothing was uploaded.
A PNG or JPG is a grid of pixels; an SVG is a set of shapes. Tracing finds the areas of each colour and draws their outlines as curves, so the result stays sharp at any size and can be recoloured or cut by a plotter.
| Setting | What it changes | Start with |
|---|---|---|
| Colours | How many flat colours the picture is reduced to | 2 for a black mark, 4 to 8 for a logo |
| Detail | How closely outlines follow the pixels, and the smallest shape kept | Medium; Low for simple, clean shapes |
| Smoothing | A blur before tracing that melts JPEG noise and jagged edges | 1; 2 to 3 for a scan or a photo of a drawing |
Clean output. The SVG has its width, height and viewBox set, invisible shapes removed and colours written as hex codes, ready for Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, Cricut Design Space or a website. Remove the plain background to keep only the drawing, then shrink the file further with the SVG Optimizer.
The rest of the article, and all 6 questions about Image to SVG, are on the Image to SVG page.
Drop the picture on the page and a traced SVG preview appears beside the original. Choose the number of colours, the detail and the smoothing until the shapes look right, then press Download. The full-size SVG is traced in your browser with the same settings and saved to your device.
A real vector. Every area of colour becomes a path with its own fill, so the file scales to any size without blur, colours can be changed one by one, and cutting machines can follow the outlines. Some converters only wrap the original pixels in an SVG file, which still blurs when enlarged.
Tracing reduces the picture to flat areas of colour, and a photograph has thousands of shades, so the SVG looks like a screen print. That is how vectorising works everywhere. For photos keep the PNG or JPG; tracing suits logos, icons, drawings and other flat artwork.
No. The picture is decoded and traced by your own browser, in a background worker so the page stays responsive, and the SVG is made on your device. Nothing is sent to a server, and nothing remains once you close the tab.
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