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Trace into SVG

Turn a logo, an icon or a flat drawing into an SVG that stays sharp at any size.

Create account 1 credit a photo

How it works

Each area of one colour becomes a filled shape, traced with smooth curves, straight lines or pixel steps. Made for logos, icons and flat drawings; a photograph traces into thousands of shapes and a large file. Transparent areas stay empty.

You choose
  • Colours: In colour, Black only
  • Lines: Smooth, Straight, Pixels
  • Colour detail
  • Drop specks smaller than
It takes
One photo at a time, or a whole folder at once in the browser.
You get
An SVG file, and how many shapes it has.
Cost
1 credit a photo

In the API

One request a photo, with an API key from the console. POST /v1/vectorize

curl -X POST "https://api.photos.sh/v1/vectorize?mode=color&curves=spline&detail=8&speckle=4" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PHOTOS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: image/jpeg" \
  --data-binary @photo.jpg \
  -o result.svg

More tools to get it ready

  • Crop to a shapeCrop to square, 4:5 or any shape, around the product or the faces, found for you. The background stays.
  • Expand the canvasAdd room around a photo to reach a shape, continuing a plain background or filling it with a colour.
  • Resize and compressChange the size, trim an even border, convert to JPEG, WebP, PNG or AVIF, and keep files under a size.
  • Add a watermarkPut your logo or a line of text on every photo, in a corner or repeated across it.
  • Passport photoFrame a portrait the way a passport asks: the head level, at the right size and place, on a photo of the right size.
  • PresetsReady-made looks in one step: marketplace white, studio, social, cut-out or web.

Try it on your own photos.

Create an account, buy a pack when you need one, and drop your first photos into Trace into SVG.

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