Drop a JPG or JPEG below to trace it into an SVG. Your first conversion needs no account. JPG compression adds extra colors to the trace; the examples below show how many, and how to merge them.
Drop a JPG or JPEG here. Low-resolution files work; the wordmark below is 520 px wide.
PNG, JPG, WebP, AVIF, GIF or BMP, up to 20 MB
JPG saves space by throwing detail away, and the compression can leave faint in-between shades along edges. The converter traces those shades along with everything else. In the gallery, a wordmark drawn in 5 colors came back with 21 solid colors, and a fox drawn in a handful of flat colors came back with 79. Most of the extras are near-copies of the real colors, so the SVG looks right but carries more colors and paths than the artwork needs.
Reduce colors in the editor can merge them. It maps the solid colors to a smaller palette and leaves gradients alone. Slide it down, compare the result with your original, and stop when the colors look right. The slider goes as low as two colors.
The API has an endpoint for the same job. POST /api/agent/edit/simplify takes an SVG and a max_colors value from 1 to 256, and returns the SVG with at most that many colors. It costs no credits. Vectorize the batch first, then pass each SVG through it. See the developer docs.
The examples gallery has three JPG sources, and all three are here. In the enlarged details, the JPG's compression blocks are easy to see next to the smooth edges of the SVG.
A logo saved as a tiny JPG, 520 px wide at quality 38, with visible compression blocks. The letters came back with smooth edges. The trace found 21 colors where the logo has 5. The SVG is larger than this 4.4 KB JPG, but it can be printed at any size.
Flat colors saved as a compressed JPG. The art has no shading and the SVG has no gradients. Compression noise pushed the trace to 79 solid colors, which Reduce colors can merge into a few.
A photo-style scene with a gradient sky and layered hills. The SVG mixes 28 gradients with 77 solid colors, and parts of the sky are traced as horizontal bands. It is 6.1 times the size of the JPG.
The wordmark and the sunset show how much path counts vary between images. The wordmark traced to 25 paths with 309 anchor points. The sunset traced to 205 paths with 2,506 anchor points, and it is a clean drawing with no grain. The gallery has no grainy photo yet, so there is no measured number for one here.
For screen printing or vinyl cutting, aim for a small palette of flat colors. Run Reduce colors well down, or try Screen print mode, then check the shapes before you download. More photo-style results are in the photo examples.
After the first trace you can switch the editor from General to Cutting, Laser or Screen print. A mode you haven't tried on this JPG yet traces it again and counts as a conversion.
Screen print mode is a starting point for JPG artwork headed for a t-shirt. On the gallery's race tee design it returned 7 paths, plus a few light tints to merge before you separate; see screen printing. For vinyl cut from a JPG logo, use Cutting and read the Cricut page. For engraving, see laser.
For print, send the PDF or AI file. The image to SVG page lists what each of the six download formats contains.
To convert a folder of JPGs with Pro, send up to 10 per request to POST /api/agent/batch, at one credit each, then run each SVG through simplify. The MCP server has matching batch_vectorize and simplify_svg tools; see the MCP guide.
Choose a JPG to start. Free and Pro allowances are on the pricing page.