How do I vectorise a signature or a sketch?

Choose Black and white. Light paper texture and shadows are dropped, the ink becomes black shapes and the background is transparent — ready to place on a document or send to a cutting machine.

The traced logo has speckles around the edges

That is JPG noise. Lower the colour count to 4 or 8 and use Smooth; if the original is available as PNG, trace that instead.

Can I convert a photo to SVG?

You can, but expect a stylised, posterised image with many shapes and a large file. Use 32–64 colours and Detailed for the closest match.

Are HEIC photos supported?

Yes — iPhone HEIC and AVIF are decoded before tracing.

Is anything uploaded?

No. The JPG stays on your device; tracing runs in your browser.

Image Converters

JPG to SVG

A logo someone emailed you as a JPG, a scanned signature, a pencil sketch photographed with a phone: trace it into an SVG you can scale, recolour and cut.

Runs in your browser — files never leave your device.

Drop JPG, JFIF, HEIC, AVIF files here

or click to browse · paste from clipboard · up to 100 MB each

Select files

Options

Tracing mode

Colours

Detail

Trace at up to (px)

Why convert JPG to SVG

JPG compression leaves faint noise around edges, so a JPG traces less cleanly than a PNG. The tracer counters this with colour quantisation: pick 4–8 colours for a logo and the noise collapses into the nearest flat colour, leaving clean shapes. Greyscale and black-and-white modes are ideal for signatures, sketches and scanned line art.

The result is a real SVG — paths and fills, not an embedded bitmap — so it stays sharp at billboard size and can be edited node by node in Inkscape, Illustrator or Figma. Photographs are not a good fit: they trace into a poster-like mosaic, which can be a deliberate effect but is not a faithful copy.

How to convert images to SVG

Drop the JPG.
Choose colour, greyscale or black-and-white and how many colours to keep.
Convert, then download the SVG.

About the formats

JPG · JPEG image · .jpg

The universal photo format: small files, supported by every device, camera and website, but no transparency and slight quality loss on each save.

JPEG compression discards fine detail the eye rarely notices; quality 80–90 is usually indistinguishable from the original at a fraction of the size.
Re-saving a JPG repeatedly adds generation loss, so keep an original and export copies.
JPG has no alpha channel — transparent areas become white or black when converted from PNG.

JFIF · JPEG File Interchange Format · .jfif

A JPEG with the formal .jfif extension, which Windows and some browsers give to downloaded pictures; identical data to a .jpg but rejected by many upload forms.

JFIF is the standard container of nearly every JPEG file — the extension is the only difference from .jpg.
Windows assigns .jfif when the image/jpeg file type is mapped to it in the registry; renaming to .jpg is usually enough.
Re-saving as .jpg at maximum quality keeps the image practically identical.

HEIC · High Efficiency Image Container · .heic

The default photo format on iPhone and iPad since iOS 11: about half the size of JPG at the same quality, but poorly supported outside Apple devices.

HEIC stores images with the HEVC (H.265) codec; a container can hold several images, such as a Live Photo or burst.
Windows needs a paid HEVC extension to open HEIC files, and many websites and forms refuse them.
iPhone can be set to shoot JPG instead: Settings → Camera → Formats → Most Compatible.

AVIF · AV1 Image File Format · .avif

A newer web image format based on the AV1 video codec, smaller than WebP and JPG but still unsupported in many apps and older browsers.

AVIF supports HDR, wide colour gamut, transparency and animation.
Encoding AVIF is slow; decoding is fast, which suits web delivery.
Support arrived in Chrome 85, Firefox 93 and Safari 16.

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