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[Benita Vandervoort]

Automaticallyconvert JPG, PNG, BMP, and GIF bitmap images to true SVG, EPS, and PDF vector images online by simply uploading them. Real full-color tracing, no software to install and results are ready right away!

Stand-alone desktop application to convert bitmap images to vector images offline. Supports all the Online Edition file formats, plus AI and DXF output. Works seamlessly with Illustrator, Corel, and others.

Your logo represents your brand and is used across a wide range of media: your website, business cards, flyers, banners, etc. Ensure a consistent and crisp display in all contexts by having it in vector format.

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

Vector Magic analyzes your image and automatically detects appropriate settings to vectorize it with, and then goes ahead and traces out the underlying shapes in full color. This makes getting started a real breeze: just upload your image and presto, a result to review!

If you compare results from other tools, you will notice that Vector Magic produces vectors that are more faithful to the bitmap original. This makes them often immediately usable, and if cleanup is required there's much less of it.

With the high cost of outsourcing and the time hand-tracing takes, Vector Magic pays for itself with even a minimum of use. And since usage is unlimited, it always makes sense to try it on any image you need vectorized.

Vector images consist of shapes like 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 re-drawing it as a vector image.

The shapes in vector images allow computers to do things that cannot be done with bitmap images, like scale them to any size without loss of quality and using them to e.g. cut, sew, paint, and laser engrave.

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

One of the most widely-used image formats. It has excellent compression characteristics and has the nice feature that the user may specify what level of compression they desire, trading off fidelity for file size.

Adobe's EPS format (Encapsulated PostScript) is perhaps the most common vector image format. It is the standard interchange format in the print 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 does not have any editing capabilities. Inkscape can only export it.

The W3C standard vector image format is called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). Inkscape and recent versions of Adobe Illustrator and CorelDRAW have good support for reading and writing SVG. Further information on the SVG format may be found on the official SVG website.

Adobe's PDF format (Portable Document Format) is very widely used as a general purpose platform-independent document format. And while it is not exclusively used as such, it is also a very good vector image format. Adobe gives away the Acrobat PDF reader, but sells the tools required to create PDF files (third party tools that perform the same task are also for sale). Those tools work with any program that is able to print. Support for reading and editing PDF files is much more limited.

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

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

Photos can be vectorized to great artistic effect, and this tutorial shows you some examples. You can get a stylized piece of art that can be used e.g. as a background or component in a larger composition. You can also extract individual shapes from specific real-world objects, which can be a great addition to your asset repository.

Officially supported input file formats are: JPG, PNG, BMP, and GIF bitmap images using the sRGB color space. That said, we do our best to accept any image format your browser can read. CMYK input gets converted to sRGB.

The maximum allowed image size is 1 megapixel, regardless of aspect ratio. Images larger than the size limit will be shrunk to that size. Note that this is pixels, not bytes, and there is currently no image byte size limitation.

The purpose of this page is to let you manually correct segmentation mistakes made by Vector Magic. The segmentation is the crude partitioning of the image into pieces that are then smoothed to produce the final vector art.

Sometimes the finer details are not recovered automatically and you get a pinching effect in the result. The Finder can help point out some of these tricky areas - you need to edit the pixels so that the region you are interested in has a clear path.

You can upload, vectorize, and preview the result for as many images as you like without commitment. However, to download results you need to subscribe to the Online Edition. Alternatively, you can buy the Desktop Edition and use the software offline.

At least one of Vector Magic's output formats generally works with most modern software. You can download sample output below, or check out the compatibility page to confirm that the output will work with your specific software. The Desktop Edition download comes with a full set of samples as well.

You can cancel your subscription any time with just a few clicks on your account page. You can keep using your subscription until the end of your billing period, even after you cancel. There are no hoops, catches, or strings attached, and you do not have to call to cancel.

Because AD does not have the ability to create vectors from embedded graphic files yet, I decided to use Vector Magic Desktop as an alternative. Unfortunately, I just discovered that Vector Magic Desktop does not work with El Capitan. So, I am now forced to go back to Yosemite. Anyone else experience this?

I haven't. So I'm adopting the if it ain't broke: don't fix it approach; that is to stick with Yosemite for the next 6-12 months. Too many niggles. If I wanted to have headache after headache, I would have stuck with MS Windows...Dot Net Framework, anyone?

Thanks for providing alternative directions without having to disable SIP. Unfortunately, there are still a few issues with El Capitan and Affinity Designer (unable to search for file names in file open dialog) that prevented me from upgrading. So I'll stick with Peter's approach and continue to use Yosemite until these issues get resolved.

I have just been using Inkscape for tracing. it does a passable job. then I transfer the results to AD to work in a less clunky environment. Only downside is that I cannot get Inkscape to work on OS-X so I have to run it in a Linux VM. Its never just easy. :)

It converts bitmaps into vector graphics. I tested it on their site with an high- contrast jpeg. The result was very good. But im not sure, if it really works with multicoloured photos.

Has someone tested it, yet?

Thank you, best regards from Berlin,

I use Adobe Illustrator almost daily and most commonly the Image Trace feature to convert my drawings into vector images. The way vector mapping works is an algorithm of math equations to identify where to put anchor points (bezier handles). I can't comprehend what goes on under the hood other than I "understand" how it works.

The Image Trace feature in Illustrator has a set of properties to tell how many anchors you want, how smooth the lines you want, corners, etc. It can *read* the bitmap image best when there's stark contrast between what will eventually be the vector shapes and everything else. Using VectorMagic didn't give me an option (online test) to set any properties - it just started to convert.

Hi-res photos are a different breed altogether because of the millions of pixels of different colors and shades all jammed together. It's very difficult to identify where to place an anchor point with color variants such as an image of a cloudy sky.

I tried two photos. Both hi-res. One of a female portrait business headshot photo with a textured backdrop, and the other of a coffee cup full of colorful pencils with a white background. As you can guess the portrait didn't turn out so well. The cup full of pencils turned out good enough that I would consider using that output in a project. Why the difference? There's too many colors in the portrait, soft gradients, textures, etc. - hard math. The cup of pencils had stark contrast against each other and the white background - easy math.

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