PNG to SVG

A PNG is a grid of coloured pixels. Tracing looks for areas of the same colour, follows their edges and writes them down as vector paths made of lines and curves. Because the SVG is a set of filled shapes, it can be scaled up without blurring.

"Logo / drawing" reduces the image to a few flat colours and gives smooth, clean edges. Use it for logos, icons, signatures and line art. "Photo" keeps more colours and detail, but the file gets much bigger and more complex.

You can, but it won’t look like the original photo. The result is built from flat patches of colour, a bit like a poster effect. If you only need a photo at a different size, PNG or JPG is the better choice.

Fully transparent areas stay empty, so the traced logo still sits cleanly on any background. Soft shadows or glows that fade out may become a solid outline, because tracing works with flat colours.

Start with the largest, sharpest PNG you have, ideally with strong contrast and a plain background. Very small icons (under about 100 px) don’t have enough pixels for smooth curves, so use a bigger version if there is one.

Yes. Open it in Inkscape, Illustrator, Figma or Affinity Designer, and each traced shape is a separate path you can recolour, move or delete. Any text in the image becomes shapes as well, so you can’t edit it as text.