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JPG to SVG Converter

Turn a JPEG logo, a scanned drawing or a photo of a sketch into vector paths. Check the free preview, then download.

  • PNG
  • JPG
  • WebP
  • GIF
  • BMP
  • TIFF

Up to 30 MB and 16 megapixels. You see a watermarked preview before you spend anything.

How to convert JPG to SVG

  1. Upload the JPG Drop, paste or choose the file. JPG and JPEG are the same format, and both work.
  2. Set the colors Pick a fixed color count, or switch to black and white, so compression noise is not traced as extra shapes.
  3. Download Sign up for 5 free credits and save the SVG. PDF, EPS, DXF and PNG of the same trace are included.

JPEG noise, and how to keep it out of your SVG

JPEG saves space by blurring detail in small blocks. On photos you rarely notice. On a logo you get faint speckles in flat areas and a halo of off-colors around sharp edges.

A tracer that kept every one of those colors would draw them as tiny extra shapes. Two settings stop that:

  • A fixed color count. If your logo has three colors, choose 4 (the three plus the background). Every speckle and halo pixel is grouped into the nearest real color, and the edges come out as one clean line.
  • Black and white. For one-color artwork such as a signature, a stamp or a stencil, black and white traces a single solid color and drops the noise entirely.

White backgrounds

JPEG has no transparency, so a logo saved as JPG sits on a white rectangle, and that rectangle is traced as a white shape. You can delete it in any vector editor in one click. With black and white, only the dark artwork becomes a shape, so there is nothing to delete.

Scans and phone photos of drawings

Most JPGs of line art come from a scanner or a phone. A minute of prep makes the trace far cleaner.

  • Even lightShadows and a gray gradient across the page get traced as shapes. Scan, or photograph in flat daylight.
  • High contrastDark ink on white paper. Raise contrast in your photo app before uploading if the lines look gray.
  • Straight onShoot from directly above and crop to the drawing, so the paper's edge and the table do not end up in the file.

JPG to SVG questions

Can I convert a photograph from JPG to SVG?

You can, but a photograph has thousands of shades, so it turns into a very large number of small shapes. SVGMill is made for logos, illustrations and line art. For a photo, keep the JPG.

Why are there specks around the edges of my trace?

Those are JPEG compression artifacts. Choose a fixed color count close to the number of colors in your artwork, or use black and white for one-color art, and make a new preview.

How do I get rid of the white background?

JPG cannot be transparent, so the white is traced as a shape. Delete that shape in a vector editor, or trace one-color art in black and white so the background is not drawn at all.

Is .jpeg different from .jpg?

No. They are two names for the same format, and both upload the same way.