TracerJPG to SVG
JPG to SVG converter
Turn a JPG into editable vector paths. Free for SVG, no watermark, nothing to install.
SVG export is free. DXF, EPS and PDF are on the Pro plan.
JPG is built for photographs, and that creates a specific problem when you vectorize. The format throws away detail to save space, and what it throws away is exactly the hard edges a tracer looks for.
It still works. You just need to know what you are dealing with.
How it works
How to convert JPG to SVG
Drop in your JPG
Any size. If the file has been saved and re-saved several times, expect more cleanup.
Pick a preset
Logo / Line art for a single-colour mark. Clean / Flat for illustrations. Detailed for artwork with more going on. Try one, look, try another. It takes seconds.
Check the shape count before you download
If a three-colour logo came back with eleven fills, the extras are compression noise. A flatter preset will usually fix it.
What JPG compression does to a trace
Open a JPG at 400% and look at a hard edge. Those faint blocks and halos around it are compression artefacts, and a tracer reads them as real shape boundaries.
Three things help, in order:
Raise the contrast before uploading. Push the light tones to white and dark tones to black. Artefacts in the midtones disappear.
Use the largest version you have. A 1500px JPG has artefacts too, but they are proportionally smaller relative to the shapes that matter.
If you still have the original, use that instead. A PNG exported from the original, or the source file itself, beats any amount of cleanup on a compressed copy.
When this works and when it doesn't
Works well: logos and flat artwork saved as JPG, scanned line drawings, screenshots, anything with strong contrast.
Works badly: photographs, soft gradients, artwork saved at low quality, anything where the edges are already mush.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Yes, SVG export is free and has no watermark. Downloading needs an account.
Ready when you are
Drop an image,
get clean paths.
Upload a JPG and see how it traces. SVG is free either way.
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