Vector Magic

What is Vector Magic?

Easily convert JPG, PNG and GIF files into PDF, SVG and EPS vectors

Quickly prepare your artwork to print, embroider, cut and more with the world's best automatic color tracker!

Prepress

Need to prepare the art to print, cut or embroider? Vector Magic can help you control the flow of your image. Speed up response times, minimize prepress complications and reduce your costs!

Logos

Your logo represents your brand and is used in a wide variety of media: your website, business cards, brochures, banners. Ensure a consistent and sharp display in all contexts, having it in vector format.

Graphic design

Quickly get bitmap source material in your vector compositions, opening up a range of creative possibilities. Or go the old-fashioned way and draw something on paper, and then scan, vectorize, and refine your creation.

and more

Create an artistic effect from your photos, vectorize graphics or maps, turn scanned art into something more flexible, and more. Try it today!

How to convert JPG, PNG and GIF images to PDF, SVG, EPS vectors

1st Upload

Upload a bitmap image and we'll automatically find out what settings to use and track the image for you.

2. Review and edit

You can review the result of the vector, adjust the settings, and even edit the result, all within the same tool.

3. Download

The result is provided in SVG, EPS and PDF formats. The desktop edition also produces AI and DXF.

Simply the best Auto-Tracer in the world

Fully automatic vectorization

Vector Magic analyzes your image and automatically detects the appropriate settings to vectorize it, and then moves on and plots the underlying shapes in color. This makes the start very easy: just upload your image and ready, a result to review!

Of course, you can review the detected settings automatically. Vector Magic offers meaningful configurations that are understandable to humans, not just a machine, and are easy to change.

Subpixel accuracy

Vector Magic carefully tracks every bit of information available in your image, cutting each edge pixel precisely in the right place to recreate the intent of your original.

This allows us to discover small details that are lost by other tools, enlarging the envelope of how small you can get before a nuance of your input is lost.

The right number of knots

If you've used other auto-tracking tools before, you may have noticed the terrible number of nodes they use to create your result, and how strangely they put them.

Vector Magic is a breath of fresh air, intelligently selecting the right number to use and placing them in great locations.

This makes working with the results much easier and reduces the size of the files.

Edit the result

Vector Magic not only offers easy-to-use settings, but also allows you to edit the result, both online and in the desktop application.

You can eliminate unwanted shapes, connect shapes that have been separated, fix broken lines, and separate shapes that shouldn't touch each other, all in the form of an easy-to-use pixel-style editor.

This remarkable feature can save a real life when there are some small spots in its result.

Tracking, not embedding

Vector Magic always tracks your bitmap, carefully highlighting the underlying shapes in it, and provides you with a real vector image with all its benefits.

In contrast, there are several online services available that aim to convert bitmaps into vectors, but that actually only embody pixels without actually turning them into vector shapes.

This leaves you with a file that will still be blurry when scaled and cannot be used for cutting, sewing, laser engraving, or other purposes that require a real vector.

Avoid frustration and go with Vector Magic for real vectorization!

Easy

Vector Magic transforms the difficult and tedious task of manually tracing a bitmap into a simple click-and-click experience. Re-control your images!

Excellent

If you compare the results of other tools, you'll notice that Vector Magic produces vectors that are more true to the original bitmap. Often this makes them immediately usable, and if cleaning is required, there will be much less cleaning.

Economical

With the high cost of outsourcing and the time it takes tracking at hand, Vector Magic pays for itself with minimal use. And because usage is unlimited, it always makes sense to test it on any image you need to vectorize.

Expedient

Why wait when you don't have to? Vector Magic returns results immediately so you can continue with your day and what really matters.

Bitmap images x vector images

What is the difference between JPG, PNG, GIF images and SVG, EPS, PDF, AI, DXF files?

Vector images consist of shapes such as circles, rectangles, lines, and curves, while bitmap images, also known as raster images, consist of a grid of pixels. Vectorization or tracing is the process of taking a bitmap image and redesigning as a vector image.

Shapes in vector images allow computers to do things that cannot be done with bitmap images, such as scaling them to any size without loss of quality, and using them to, for example, cut, sew, paint, and laser engrave.

Bitmap image file formats

There are a large number of different bitmap formats. Some of the most common are: JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF. In general terms, they fall into two categories:

Lossy formats

They have smaller file sizes, but do not store a perfect copy of the image. They are best suited for photographs and other images where perfect accuracy is not important. They are also commonly used on the web to save bandwidth.

JPEG / JPG

One of the most commonly used image formats. It has excellent compression features and the interesting feature that the user can specify the level of compression they want by swapping fidelity for file size.

It is not recommended to use JPEG files for rasterized vector art, as compression artifacts substantially degrade image quality near the edges.

Lossless formats

They store an exact pixel-by-pixel representation of the image, but require more space. They are best suited for things like logos.

PNG

The best of lossless image formats is called Portable Network Graphics (PNG). This format is widely supported by web browsers and viewers/image editors.

Vector Magic recommends using the PNG format when storing logos as bitmaps.

BMP

In fact, there are several BMP formats (BitMaP). Windows and Macintosh have their own formats, both called BMP. Most modern image editing tools are able to read both.

In any case, all BMP variants should be avoided when possible because they use little or no compression and consequently have unnecessarily large file sizes.

Vector image file formats

EPS

Adobe's EPS format (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common vector image format. It is the standard interchange format in the printing industry. It is widely supported as an export format, but due to the complexity of the full format specification, not all programs that claim to support EPS are able to import all variants of it. Adobe Illustrator and recent versions of CorelDRAW have very good support for reading and writing EPS. Ghostview can read it very well, but it doesn't have editing features. Inkscape can only export it.

SVG

The standard Vector Image Format W3C is called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Inkscape and recent versions of Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW have good support for reading and writing SVG.

PDF

The Adobe PDF format (Portable Document Format) is widely used as a general-purpose platform-independent document format. And although not used exclusively as such, it is also a very good vector image format. Adobe distributes the Acrobat PDF reader, but sells the tools needed to create PDF files (third-party tools that perform the same task are also for sale). These tools work with any program capable of printing. Support for reading and editing PDF files is much more limited.

OUCH

The native format of Adobe Illustrator is the Adobe Illustrator Artwork (AI) format, a modified version of the old EPS format. The AI format is widely supported, but is less ubiquitous than the EPS format, and most programs that read AI can also read EPS.

DXF

Drawing format eXchange. An Autodesk CAD format, used by CAD tools from many different vendors. Some programs have difficulty reading DXF files with splines (curves), so Desktop Edition supports line + spline and line-only output modes.

There are several other vector formats: CDR is the native format of CorelDRAW and XAR is the native format of Xara Xtreme, to name a few.

Vector Magic can convert JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF images to EPS, SVG, PDF, AI or DXF

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768