Complete Guide to Vectorization Options

Color Mode

This fundamental choice determines the color space of your final vector.

• Color: Creates a full-color SVG that matches the source image's colors.
• Black & White: Converts the image to a two-tone (binary) output, ideal for simple silhouettes or stencils.

Color Detail

This powerful setting controls the number of unique colors in the final SVG. Reducing the color count is the most effective way to simplify an image and reduce file size. Our system intelligently analyzes your image to create an optimal palette for the number of colors you choose.

• Full (up to 256): Aims to preserve all color details. Best for complex illustrations and photographs where color fidelity is critical.
• High/Medium/Low/Minimal: These options create a limited palette, perfect for creating a "posterized" artistic effect or for matching specific brand color requirements.
• Custom: Allows you to specify the exact number of colors (from 2 to 256) for maximum control.

Mode

Determines the fundamental shape-fitting algorithm used to create the vector paths.

• Spline: Creates smooth, curved paths. This is the best choice for most images, including illustrations and photographs, as it produces natural-looking, organic shapes.
• Polygon: Creates paths with sharp, straight-line corners. Excellent for geometric designs, logos with hard edges, or when a stylized, low-poly look is desired.
• Pixel: A special mode designed exclusively for pixel art. It converts each pixel of color into a perfectly aligned square vector shape, creating an infinitely scalable and clean version of the original.

Filter Speckle

This is a cleanup tool that removes small, unwanted spots or "speckles" of color from the image. Higher values will remove larger spots. This is extremely useful for cleaning up noisy or low-quality source images and can significantly reduce final file size by ignoring tiny, irrelevant details.

Segmentation Granularity

This applies a smart pre-filtering effect to your image before vectorization. It helps to reduce fine noise and texture, creating larger, more uniform areas of color. Higher values result in a more "painterly" or stylized effect. It's an excellent way to simplify a complex photograph into something that vectorizes more cleanly.

Path Precision

Controls the level of detail and accuracy of the generated vector paths. Higher values result in paths that follow the original image's contours more closely, but can lead to larger file sizes. Lower values produce simpler, more generalized paths and smaller files.

Corner Threshold

Determines how "sharp" a corner must be in the source image before the tracer creates a hard-angled point instead of a smooth curve. A high value (e.g., 100°) will result in more sharp corners, which is great for logos and technical drawings. A lower value will create smoother, more rounded corners.

Segment Length

This option (only active in 'Spline' mode) controls the length of curved segments before a new anchor point is considered. A higher value ignores shorter features and creates longer, smoother curves, simplifying the final path. A lower value will try to capture more intricate, short curves.

Splice Threshold

This option (only active in 'Spline' mode) affects how adjacent curves are joined. A value of 0 attempts to connect all curves, while a higher value allows for more breaks, which can be useful for disjointed or noisy images.

Layering

This setting dictates how different colored shapes are arranged in the final SVG.

• Stacked: This method creates complete shapes for each color and layers them on top of each other, from the largest background shape to the smallest detail on top. This is the most common and compatible method.
• Cutout: This method creates shapes with "holes" in them. For example, a blue donut shape would have a transparent hole in the middle, rather than being a solid blue circle with a smaller background-colored circle on top. This can sometimes result in smaller files but may be less compatible with some editing software.

Gradient Step

This option controls the smoothness of color transitions. A value of 0 creates hard edges between colors. A higher value allows the system to create intermediate color steps to simulate a smoother gradient. Note: This effect is most noticeable when using "Full Color" detail; it is automatically disabled for limited palettes to prevent unwanted color banding.

Fix Gaps & Seams

Activates a powerful post-processing step that intelligently merges adjacent shapes of the same color. This is highly effective at eliminating tiny, transparent gaps or seams that can sometimes appear between vector shapes.
Warning: This is a CPU-intensive process and may significantly increase conversion time for very complex images.

Simplification

This feature geometrically simplifies the final vector paths by removing redundant or unnecessary anchor points. A higher tolerance value results in greater simplification, smaller file sizes, and smoother paths, but may slightly reduce detail. A value of 0 disables this step.

Show Original & Comparison Slider

Check the "Show Original" box to overlay your original raster image on top of the generated vector. A slider will appear, allowing you to wipe back and forth for a direct, pixel-perfect comparison between the source and the result.

Download Formats

We offer several industry-standard vector formats for download:

• SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics): The modern standard for the web. It is a flexible, XML-based format that is perfect for web design, logos, and use in modern vector editing software.
• PDF (Portable Document Format): A universal format excellent for printing, sharing, and document creation. Vector PDFs can be opened and edited in most professional design applications.
• EPS (Encapsulated PostScript): A legacy vector format still widely used in professional printing and publishing workflows. It offers high compatibility with older software.

Raster Image

An image made up of a grid of tiny dots called pixels. Common formats include JPG, PNG, and BMP. Raster images lose quality and become blurry or "pixelated" when scaled up.

Vector Graphic

An image made up of mathematical paths, lines, and curves. Because it's based on math instead of pixels, a vector graphic can be scaled to any size—from a postage stamp to a billboard—with zero loss in quality. Common formats include SVG, PDF, and EPS.

Path

The fundamental building block of a vector graphic. It is a line or shape defined by a series of points (called nodes or anchors) and the curves between them.

Palette

A limited set of specific colors used in an image. In vectorization, reducing the color palette is a technique used to simplify the image and create a more stylized appearance.