Quickly get your artwork ready to print, embroider, cut, and more with the world's best full-color auto-tracer!
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Automatically convert JPG, PNG, BMP, and GIF bitmap images to true SVG, EPS, and PDF vector images online by simply uploading them. Real full-color tracing, no software to install and results are ready right away!
Stand-alone desktop application to convert bitmap images to vector images offline. Supports all the Online Edition file formats, plus AI and DXF output. Works seamlessly with Illustrator, Corel, and others.
Need to get artwork ready to print, cut, or embroider? Vector Magic can help you tame your image flow. Speed up turnaround times, minimize pre-print hassles, and lower your costs!
Logos
Your logo represents your brand and is used across a wide range of media: your website, business cards, flyers, banners, etc. Ensure a consistent and crisp display in all contexts by having it in vector format.
Graphic Design
Quickly get bitmap source material into your vector compositions, opening up a range of creative possibilities. Or go old-school and draw something on paper, then scan, vectorize, and refine your creation.
... and More
Create an artistic effect from your photos, vectorize graphs or maps, turn scanned artwork into something more flexible, and much more. Try it out today!
How To Convert JPG, PNG, GIF Images to PDF, SVG, EPS Vectors
1. Upload
Upload a bitmap image and we automatically figure out what settings to use and trace the image for you.
2. Review & Edit
You can review the vector result, tweak the settings and even edit the result, all within the same tool.
3. Download
The result is delivered in SVG, EPS, and PDF formats.Thedesktop editionalso produces AI and DXF.
Simply the Best Auto-Tracer in the World
Fully automatic vectorization
Vector Magic analyzes your image and automatically detects appropriate settings to vectorize it with, and then goes ahead and traces out the underlying shapes in full color. This makes getting started a real breeze: just upload your image and presto, a result to review!
Naturally you can revise the auto-detected settings. Vector Magic offers you meaningful settings that are comprehensible to humans, not just to a machine, and they're easy to change.
Need to convert JPG to SVG? Look to Vector Magic for the best results in the industry.
Sub-pixel precision
Vector Magic carefully traces out every bit of information available in your image, slicing each edge pixel at precisely the right spot to re-create the intention of your original.
This allows us to tease out small details that are lost by other tools, pushing the envelope of how small you can go before a nuance of your input is lost.
Clients often give their logos in PNG format, but you may need to convert to SVG to print them. They can take hours to re-draw. Instead, use Vector Magic and you'll often get great results in just seconds.
The right number of nodes
If you've used other auto-tracing tools before, you may have noticed just what an awful number of nodes they use to create your result, and just how weirdly they place them.
Vector Magic is a breath of fresh air, intelligently selecting the right number of nodes to use, and placing them at excellent locations.
This makes working with the results much easier and reduces file sizes.
Vector Magic is bar none the world's best PNG to SVG converter. If you need to convert PNG to SVG, look no further.
Edit the result
Not only does Vector Magic offer youeasy to use settings, we also let you edit the result, both online and in the desktop app.
You can eliminate unwanted shapes, connect shapes that have been separated, fix broken lines, and separate shapes that should not be touching, all in the form of an easy-to-use pixel-style editor.
This remarkable feature can be a real life-saver when there are a few small blemishes in your result.
For some reason, nobody seems to keep originals around in EPS format. Whenever you need to convert to EPS, always try Vector Magic first.
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Tracing not Embedding
Vector Magic always traces your bitmap, carefully teasing out the underlying shapes in it, and provides you with a real vector image with all of its benefits.
In contrast, there are numerous services available online that claim to convert bitmaps to vectors, but that in reality just embed the pixels without actually tracing them into vector shapes.
This leaves you with a file that will still be blurry when scaled, and will not be usable for cutting, sewing, laser engraving, or other purposes that require a real vector.
Save yourself the frustration and go with Vector Magic for real vectorization!
Graphic designers often need to convert JPG to SVG. Use Vector Magic to get the job done fast.
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G Fuller, Owner, KEveryware Embroidery and Screenprinting
I LOVE your fabulous product. This has simplified our production needs tremendously. Results have been exceptional.
L Hawkins, Designer, Hogeye Inc.
LOVE it! I have been in graphic design for years, and this is the best conversion tool that I've seen, by far. Awesome work! And it saves me so much time. Thank you for a great program!
B. Malone, Graphic Designer
Benefits
Easy
Vector Magic turns the difficult and tedious task of tracing a bitmap by hand into an effortless click-click-done experience. Get back in control of your images!
Excellent
If youcompare resultsfrom other tools, you will notice that Vector Magic produces vectors that are more faithful to the bitmap original. This makes them often immediately usable, and if cleanup is required there's much less of it.
Economical
With the high cost of outsourcing and the time hand-tracing takes, Vector Magic pays for itself with even a minimum of use. And since usage is unlimited, it always makes sense to try it on any image you need vectorized.
Expedient
Why wait when you don't have to? Vector Magic returns results right away so that you can get on with your day and what really matters.
Bitmap images vs Vector images What's the difference between JPG, PNG, GIF images and SVG, EPS, PDF, AI, DXF files?
Vector images consist of shapes like circles, rectangles, lines and curves, while bitmap images, also known asrasterimages, consist of a grid of pixels.Vectorizationortracingis the process of taking a bitmap image and re-drawing it as a vector image.
The shapes in vector images allow computers to do things that cannot be done with bitmap images, like scale them to any size without loss of quality and using them to e.g. cut, sew, paint, and laser engrave.
There is a large number of different bitmap formats. Some of the most common are: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and TIFF.Broadly speaking, they fall into two categories:
Lossy formats
These have smaller file sizes but do not store a perfect copy of the image. They are best suited to photographs and other images where perfect accuracy is not important. They are also commonly used on the web to save bandwidth.
One of the most widely-used image formats. It has excellent compression characteristics and has the nice feature that the user may specify what level of compression they desire, trading off fidelity for file size.
We do not recommend using JPEG files for rasterized vector art, as the compression artifacts substantially degrade the quality of the image near edges.
Lossless formats
These store an exact pixel-by-pixel representation of the image, but require more space. They are more suitable for things like logos.
The best of the lossless image formats is called PNG (Portable Network Graphics).This format is widely supported by web browsers and image viewers/editors.
Vector Magic recommends using the PNG format when storing logos as bitmaps.
There are actually several BMP formats (BitMaP). Windows and Macintosh have theirown formats, both of which are called BMP. Most modern image editing tools are able to read both.
In any case, all of the variants of BMP should be avoided when possible, as they use little to nocompression and consequently have unnecessarily large file sizes.
Adobe's EPS format (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common vector image format.It is the standard interchange format in the print industry.It is widely supported as an export format, but due to the complexity of the full format specification, not all programs that claim to support EPS are able to import all variants of it.Adobe Illustrator and recent versions of CorelDRAW have very good support for reading and writing EPS.Ghostview can read it very well but does not have any editing capabilities.Inkscape can only export it.
The W3C standard vector image format is called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Inkscape and recent versions of Adobe Illustratorand CorelDRAW have good support for reading and writing SVG. Further information on the SVG format may be found on theofficial SVG website.
Adobe's PDF format (Portable Document Format) is very widely used as a general purpose platform-independent document format.And while it is not exclusively used as such, it is also a very good vector image format.Adobe gives away theAcrobat PDF reader, but sells the tools required to create PDF files(third party tools that perform the same task are also for sale). Those tools work with any program that is able to print.Support for reading and editing PDF files is much more limited.
The native format of Adobe Illustrator is the AI format (Adobe Illustrator Artwork), a modified version of the older EPS format.The AI format is fairly widely supported, but is less ubiquitous than the EPS format, and most programs that read AI can also read EPS.
Drawing eXchange Format.A CAD format from Autodesk, used by CAD tools from many different vendors.Some programs have difficulty reading DXF files with splines (curves), so the Desktop Edition supportsline+spline as well as line only output modes.
There are numerous other vector formats: CDR is the CorelDRAW native format and XAR is the Xara Xtreme native format, to name a couple.
Vector Magic can convert JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF images to any of EPS, SVG, PDF, AI, or DXF
Photos can be vectorized to great artistic effect, and this tutorial shows you some examples. You can get a stylized piece of art that can be used e.g. as a background or component in a larger composition. You can also extract individual shapes from specific real-world objects, which can be a great addition to your asset repository.
Learn how to really make the most out of challenging images by scaling them appropriately and using the custom palette option to limit the number of colors Vector Magic uses.
Officially supported input file formats are:JPG, PNG, BMP, and GIFbitmap images using the sRGB color space. That said, we do our best to accept any image format your browser can read. CMYK input gets converted to sRGB.
The maximum allowed image size is 1 megapixel, regardless of aspect ratio. Images larger than the size limit will be shrunk to that size. Note that this ispixels, notbytes, and there is currently no image byte size limitation.
Officially supported browsers are the latest versions ofChrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge running on modern desktops and laptops, though other modern browsers may also work.
The purpose of this page is to let you manually correct segmentation mistakes made by Vector Magic. The segmentation is the crude partitioning of the image into pieces that are then smoothed to produce the final vector art.
Flip betweenthe original bitmap, the segmentation and the vectorized result to see where there are errors.
Sometimes the finer details are not recovered automatically and you get apinchingeffect in the result. TheFindercan help point out some of these tricky areas - you need to edit the pixels so that the region you are interested in has a clear path.
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Sometimes there are remnants of anti-aliasing left in the segmentation. TheZaptool helps you here bysplitting a segmentinto pieces and merging these with the neighboring segments.
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Try it out!You can always undo or reset your edits.
Edits made are saved to the server when you hit Next. Edits will be lost if you leave or reload this page before saving.
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Preferences
Check this box to have Vector Magic automatically figure out suitable settings for your image and immediately vectorize it upon upload. De-check it to pick the settings by hand.
When an image exceeds the size limit, Pre-Crop allows you to crop out unneeded parts of the image to maximize the resolution of area you want vectorized.
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Remove Background
Assisted background removal is available in theDesktop Edition.
You can also remove the background in avector editorafter you have downloaded the result.
Pre-Crop
Your image size exceeds the size limit. For best results, please crop the image to the portion you wish to vectorize.
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