Click to upload or drop your JPG logo, sketch or photo
JPG — or PNG, WebP or GIF. Traced in your browser, never uploaded.About converting JPG to SVG
A JPG is made of pixels. Make it bigger and the edges turn soft and blocky. An SVG is made of shapes: lines and curves that stay sharp at any size, from a business card to a banner.
This tool traces your JPG. It looks for areas of the same colour and draws each area as a vector shape. A logo, an icon, a sketch or a scanned drawing becomes a clean SVG you can scale, recolour, cut on a cutting machine or put on a website.
Everything happens in your browser. Your image is never uploaded.
Features
- Real vector shapes — paths you can scale, edit and recolour, not a JPG wrapped in an SVG file
- JPG clean-up — a light, edge-keeping blur removes the specks that JPG compression leaves
- Four presets — logo, line drawing, detailed art, and a poster look for photos
- Your control — number of colours, smoothing and detail on sliders
- No background — leave out the white or flat background of a logo
- Side-by-side preview — the original next to the traced SVG
- Download or copy — an .svg file, or the SVG code for a web page
Why a JPG needs a clean-up first
JPG makes files small by throwing away fine detail in small 8×8 pixel blocks. You cannot see it at normal size, but around sharp edges it leaves grey halos and tiny coloured specks. A tracer is very literal: every speck becomes a shape. A simple logo can come out as thousands of shapes, with fuzzy edges.
The "Clean up JPG noise first" box is ticked when the page opens. Before the colours are counted, it smooths each pixel with its neighbours of a similar colour only. Specks and halos melt away, but the real edges between different colours stay sharp. Untick it for a very clean JPG, or for tiny details you must keep.
Our own test: a 900 × 600 logo JPG saved at quality 60 (a normal web JPG) gave 113 shapes (47 KB) without the clean-up and 74 shapes (32 KB) with it — the same logo, with cleaner edges.
The four presets
Each preset only sets the three sliders to a good starting point. You can still move them.
| Preset | Best for | Colours | Smoothing | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Logo or icon | Flat logos, icons, stickers | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Line drawing | Sketches, ink drawings, signatures, scanned line art | 2 | 5 | 6 |
| Detailed art | Illustrations with more colours | 16 | 3 | 7 |
| Photo | Photos — a poster look | 6 | 6 | 3 |
Fewer colours give cleaner shapes and a smaller file. More detail keeps smaller shapes and follows the edges more closely.
What happens to a photo
Be honest with yourself about this one: a traced photo never looks like the photo. Tracing turns soft colour changes into flat areas. When the tool sees a photo, it picks the Photo preset for you: few colours, big shapes, traced at a smaller size. The result looks like a screen print or a poster — good for a stylised portrait, a sticker, a stencil-like design or vinyl cutting. If you need the photo itself, keep the JPG.
Frequently asked questions
Is the SVG a real vector?
Yes. The file holds paths (shapes), not the JPG pixels. You can open it in Inkscape, Illustrator, Figma or a cutting machine program and edit each shape.
Why does my SVG have so many shapes?
The image has a lot of detail or noise. Keep the JPG clean-up on, choose fewer colours, lower the Detail slider, or try the Photo preset.
Can I convert a JPG logo to SVG for Cricut or Silhouette?
Yes. Use the Logo or Line drawing preset, tick "Leave the background out", and download the SVG. Fewer colours means fewer layers to cut.
Will the SVG look exactly like my JPG?
For a flat logo or a line drawing, very close. For a photo, no — it gets a poster look with a few flat colours.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The tracing runs in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
Related tools
- PNG to SVG — the same tracer, for PNG logos and icons
- Image to SVG — trace any image format
- SVG Color Changer — recolour the traced shapes
- Crop SVG — trim the empty space around the SVG
- SVG to PNG — turn the SVG back into a sharp PNG at any size
How to use it
- Click Click to upload, or drag your JPG onto the box
- Pick what the image is: Logo or icon, Line drawing, Detailed art or Photo
- Keep Clean up JPG noise first ticked (untick it only for a very clean JPG)
- Tick Leave the background out if the logo sits on a white or flat background
- Press Convert to SVG and zoom in on the traced picture to check the edges
- Move the sliders and convert again if needed
- Click Download SVG, or Copy SVG code
