GUIDES
Guides to tracing images into SVG
Practical, source-backed articles about what the tracer does, which settings suit which artwork, and where vector conversion stops being useful. Every guide states its author and dates; prices quoted come from the live catalog.
Why photos come out posterised when traced
A photograph has millions of subtly different colours and no hard edges. The tracer's first step is to reduce the image to at most 24 flat colours, so every smooth transition becom
Read articleReal vector paths versus a raster wrapped in SVG
A genuine PNG to SVG conversion rebuilds the picture as geometry — closed paths with fill colours — so it scales without blur and can be edited shape by shape. An SVG that merely w
Read articlePreserving transparency and white details when tracing
Transparent pixels in a PNG or WebP stay transparent in the traced SVG: the tracer only outlines opaque pixels, so a cut-out logo becomes a cut-out vector. White detail inside a sh
Read articlePreparing a traced SVG for a cutting workflow
A traced SVG from png2svg.art is closed, filled shapes — the kind of geometry cutting software imports and converts into cut lines on your side. The recipe is: trace with few colou
Read articleBest settings for tracing a flat logo
For a flat logo, start with the Standard preset, set the colour count to the number of colours you can actually see plus one for the background, keep Smooth curves on, and turn on
Read articleEditing paths after tracing
An unlocked trace opens in the built-in editor as one shape per colour. You can recolour any shape, move and scale shapes, reorder or hide them in the layer list, delete leftovers
Read articleCleaning up a low-resolution or JPEG logo before tracing
Tracing does not add resolution: a 200-pixel logo traced at any setting is still a 200-pixel design with guessed curves. What you can fix is noise — JPEG blocking, colour speckle,
Read articleChoosing the number of colours for a trace
The colour count is the number of flat fills the tracer reduces your image to before outlining each one as a path. Use the smallest number that keeps every distinct region you care
Read articleStart with your own image
The fastest way to learn what tracing does to your artwork is to try it: previews are free and you see the complete result before spending a credit. Convert an image or read the about page for what the service does and does not do.