From a blurry JPG to sharp vectors
JPG is often the only version of a logo people have left: pulled from an old website, sent over a messaging app or saved from an email signature. Enlarge it for a banner, a vehicle decal or a shop sign and it falls apart. Tracing it into an SVG gives you shapes that scale cleanly to any size.
The tool groups the JPG into a few flat colors, traces each one with curves and stacks them. You get real vector paths, not the JPG pixels hidden inside an SVG file.
Signatures, sketches and scans
A JPG photo or scan of a handwritten signature becomes a crisp black vector with two colors, ready to place in documents, on a website or on stationery at any size. Pencil or ink sketches photographed on paper turn into clean line art you can color in a vector editor. Old hand-drawn logos and stamps can be rescued the same way.
For crafters, a traced JPG becomes a cut file for Cricut, Silhouette and other vinyl cutters, or an outline for a laser engraver. Two colors give the simplest single-layer cut.
Getting a clean trace from a JPG
JPG compression adds noise and soft halos around edges. Smooth detail helps the trace ignore those artifacts, and fewer colors keeps faint shades from turning into extra shapes. If thin lines or small letters disappear, switch to fine detail. Turn on the transparent background option to remove the color that appears most along the edges, typically the white of the paper.
Start with the largest, sharpest JPG you have, photographed straight on and in good light. The image is traced at up to 1200 px on its longest side.
Where the SVG goes next
Printers, sign shops and embroidery services usually ask for a vector file because they need clean outlines to cut, stitch or enlarge. Web designers prefer SVG for logos and icons because it stays sharp on every screen and is light for simple shapes. With the SVG in hand you can also open it in Inkscape, Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Figma to change colors, delete a shape or add text, which is impossible with the original JPG.
If you only needed the logo without its white box, and not a vector, JPG to transparent PNG may be the quicker route.
Photos become posters
A regular photo can be traced too, but expect a poster-style image of flat color areas, not a realistic picture, and a file that can be large because of the many shapes. Vectorizing is meant for flat graphics.
Your JPG is processed in your browser and never uploaded or stored. There's no account and no watermark, and it's free.