Analysis and tracing resolution
VectorizeThis analyzes dimensions, transparency, broad paints, edges and likely background in your browser. Conversion files stay on your device. Monochrome and flat artwork use at least the full admitted source resolution; small inputs can be enlarged. Only positively detected photographs or complex images with many shades and gradients use a 2000 px longest-side cap. Preview resolution is independent of tracing resolution.
Monochrome and color candidates
Web, Logo and fabrication use cases use the reviewed choice workflow. Monochrome artwork compares six tracing methods, including native coverage tracing, contour isolines and methods tuned for small lettering. One-paint artwork on white can recover foreground coverage without retaining the white canvas. Transparency does not count as a paint.
Color artwork uses supported source palettes rather than manufacturing alternatives to fill a quota. Nearby neutral whites can merge without merging pale colored panels. The search runs 10 candidates for one supported profile, 8 per profile for two, 6 per profile for three, or 5 per profile for four: 10, 16, 18 or 20 total trials. The progress text counts the actual planned trials. Filtering can leave fewer displayed palettes.
Candidates retain shared boundaries, holes and stable contours while testing palette and fitting variations. Supported isolated dots can use circle fitting without replacing lettering or circular holes. These are measured interpretations of raster pixels, not reconstruction of the original design source.
Choose a palette, then an SVG
When relevant alternatives survive, the first step shows up to four palettes with a recommended SVG for each. Labels count the visible paints in the finished SVG, including white and excluding transparency. Four palettes use a 2 × 2 grid. A single palette skips this step.
The second step compares up to three distinct results for that palette. Click a card to select it. With a keyboard, arrows and Space highlight a choice; Enter or the confirmation button applies it. The back arrow returns to palettes. A single result skips this step; a single palette with a single result is selected automatically. Change choice reopens the comparison.
Auto Select Smallest chooses the smallest eligible finalized SVG across all offered palettes. Bulk edit offers Use smallest SVGs once every image is processed or choice-ready and at least one selection remains pending.
Ranking and output preparation
Each palette is ranked independently using visual resemblance, coherent geometry and complexity. Render-identical and duplicate outputs do not occupy extra slots. Non-fabrication results test optimized precisions 0, 1 and 2 against the original SVG rendering, retaining the lowest precision within the quality budget. Manual SVG precision also offers 3.
Fabrication uses no SVGO, including during candidate finalization. Physical dimensions remain explicit. The selected output still undergoes geometry, silhouette, component, hole, duplicate, closure and complexity checks. Fabrication errors require explicit confirmation before downloading anyway. Passing these heuristic checks is not certification for a machine, importer or material.
Which use cases differ?
Laser Cutting, Tinkercad and CNC default to the new monochrome methods. Cricut, Vinyl Cutter and Laser Engraving use the new color methods when the source supports colors, and monochrome methods for monochrome sources. Circle fitting is disabled for Vinyl Cutter, Tinkercad and CNC.
Explicit Photo and Complex Illustration retain the existing optimizer, typically testing about 16 candidates with targeted refinements. Auto uses the choice workflow for artwork and retains that optimizer for sources classified as photo or complex illustration. SSIM winner diagnostics appear only when a valid measured winner exists; they are not part of every result.
After a manual change
Adjusting a setting recalculates the chosen recipe rather than repeating the complete search. Interactive settings and selected-output reconciliation run ahead of queued searches; active work yields at safe candidate boundaries. Copy and download wait while output is updating. Undo and redo include settings, palette choices and color edits.
Removing a paint recalculates the visible bounds when cropping is enabled. Synchronized zoom follows the same source location after cropping. Desktop Output details reveals the actual processed raster resolution.
Read the settings reference for thresholds, smoothing, corners, curve direction and circle controls, or compare the use cases. Tiny features, blur, compression, gradients and missing source detail can still limit the result.
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