Convert PNG to SVG — Transparent Vector Trace

Why PNG is the best starting point for an SVG

PNG is lossless, so the edges of a logo are exactly what the designer drew — no JPG blocking for the tracer to mistake for detail. And PNG carries an alpha channel, so a logo with a transparent background traces into shapes with nothing behind them, ready to drop onto any colour. That is why a PNG traces cleaner than the same image saved as a JPG.

How the conversion works

The PNG is reduced to a small palette (the Colours slider), each colour's regions are outlined, specks below the Detail threshold are discarded, and the outlines are fitted with lines and quadratic curves. Regions that were fully transparent in the PNG are dropped, so the SVG has a genuinely empty background.

Before you trace

• PNG has a white background instead of transparency? Remove it with Make Background Transparent first.
• Small or blurry PNG? Enlarge it 2–4× with the image upscaler — smoother edges trace into smoother curves.
• Tracing a photo for a Cricut or a stencil? Turn it into clean line art with Photo to Coloring Page first, then trace that with the black-and-white preset.
• Need it the other way round? SVG to PNG renders an SVG at any size.

Using the SVG

The file opens in any browser and in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, Affinity Designer, Canva and Cricut Design Space. Paths are written colour by colour and each carries its own fill, so you can select every shape of one colour (Select › Same fill in most editors) and recolour or delete it at once. On a website, an SVG logo stays razor-sharp on high-density screens at a fraction of the size of a large PNG.