Convert a logo PNG or image to SVG for Cricut.
Trace a logo, sticker, decal or shirt graphic into an SVG of filled shapes that cutting software such as Cricut Design Space can import. Below is a real trace of a three-colour logo decal, then what changes once it becomes a cut project.
Drop the logo PNG (or any PNG or JPG) on this page and pic2svg traces it into an SVG made of filled shapes, one per colour region, which cutting software such as Cricut Design Space can import. Before cutting, delete the full-canvas shape at the bottom of the stack — your transparent background, flattened to white. Flat art with a few colours makes a usable cut file; a photo does not.
Trace preset:Balanced▼
Applies to images you add next — each one traces as it lands.
The SVG download is free — no account needed.
Transparent areas become white shapes, and larger images are scaled down to about 0.6 megapixels before tracing.
Your image is uploaded to pic2svg's own server to be traced. What we keep, and for how long
Other formats, plans and licences
PDF, EPS, AI (EPS-based) and DXF come with a paid plan, and every new account gets 7 days of Pro free. The free plan and Starter carry a personal-use licence; commercial use needs Pro, and resale needs Advanced — see the licence row on the pricing page.
What does a traced logo decal look like?
The input is a synthetic 600×600 logo-style decal drawn for this page: a red star, a yellow circle and a black dot on a transparent background. Traced on 2026-10-22 by our engine with the flags the production server passes; the sizes and shape counts are measured from the files themselves.
As this page uploads it: 4 shapes
How do you convert an image to SVG for Cricut?
Four steps on the converter at the top of this page, then one in Cricut Design Space. Tracing starts the moment an image lands, so choose the preset first.
- Step 1
Choose a preset first
Open Trace preset under the drop area. Balanced, the default, suits flat designs like the one above; Compact merges colours that are close to each other, for fewer shapes. Changing it re-traces a single image on screen; for a batch already traced, a Re-trace all link appears that redoes it.
- Step 2
Add the design
Drag the PNG or JPG onto the drop area, click Pick images to trace, or paste it with Ctrl+V (⌘+V on a Mac). Signed out you trace one image at a time; a free account traces up to 12 in one run — see batch image to SVG.
- Step 3
Check the edges in the preview
Drag the compare slider across the preview to see your original against the vector. Look along each colour edge: thin slivers of an in-between colour there will be in the cut file too.
- Step 4
Download the SVG
Open Download and choose a format; SVG is the one cutting software imports, and it is free with no account. PDF needs Starter or higher, and EPS, AI and DXF need Pro or higher. Pricing lists what each plan includes and the licence that comes with it.
- Step 5
Upload it to Design Space and clean it up
Upload the SVG to Cricut Design Space as you would any SVG cut file. Then, before you cut: hide or delete the full-canvas background shape, check that each colour you want is its own shape, and set the real size. We have not tested how Design Space sizes or groups an imported SVG, so check both on the canvas.
What changes when the SVG becomes a cut project?
A trace is built to look like the image, not to cut cleanly. These differences matter on a cutting mat.
The background is a shape — delete it
The engine composites transparent pixels onto white before tracing, and the browser fills the canvas white before uploading, so nothing in the SVG is transparent. In the trace above, shape 1 is a white rectangle the size of the whole canvas. Left in, it is cut like any other shape: a square around your design. The PNG to SVG page covers how transparency is flattened.
Check that shape's colour before you delete it
When we ran the same star off the edges of the canvas, the full-canvas shape came out in the star's red, with white background shapes stacked on top of it — deleting it would have deleted the star. In every trace we ran with empty space around the art, the bottom shape was the background, so leave a margin.
White artwork merges with the background
After flattening, white in your design and the empty background are the same colour, so the tracer cannot tell them apart. If a white element needs to be its own layer, recolour it before tracing and change the colour back in your cutting software.
Colours are stacked, not cut out
Each colour is one filled shape laid over the ones before it: the red star above is a complete star even under the yellow circle. That matches how layered vinyl goes down, lowest colour first, but each lower layer runs underneath the layers above it. There is no knockout mode.
Fewer colours, fewer pieces
The shape count follows the colours in the file, not its size: three flat colours on a transparent background gave 4 shapes. A photo, with far more colour regions, gives far more shapes — not a practical cut file. Reduce it to a few flat colours before tracing; reducing the nodes in a traced SVG shows how, with measurements.
Small detail and final size
Specks up to about 4 × 4 px (16 px of area) are dropped, and small images are never enlarged, so fine lines and small lettering need a bigger source. This site traces about 600,000 pixels at most, so a larger square image is traced at 775×775, and the SVG is sized in those pixels, so set the physical size in your cutting software.
What the engine does not do
It always traces in colour: there is no single-colour or black-and-white cut mode, no stencil bridges and no weeding boxes, and lettering comes out as shapes, not editable text. Add those in your cutting or vector software. To confirm a file is real paths rather than an embedded picture, see how to check if an SVG is a real vector.
Selling cut files needs the resale licence
Without a plan and on Starter, the licence is personal, non-commercial use. Pro covers commercial use, including client work. Advanced is the plan whose licence covers resale of the output and its inclusion in templates or stock assets you sell — which is what selling SVG cut files is. See pricing.
Which preset should you trace a cut file on?
The converter offers two presets, and both trace the same canvas — width capped at 3,072 px and area at 600,000 px. Compact's larger colour step merges colours that are close to each other; on this flat decal it gave the same 4 shapes.
| Preset | Colour step (layer_difference) | Corner threshold | Shapes, this decal | SVG size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced (default) | 6 | 50 | 4 | 7.0 KB |
| Compact | 16 | 60 | 4 | 7.1 KB |
Cricut SVG questions
- Can I convert a PNG to SVG for Cricut for free?
- Yes. Tracing, the preview and the SVG download are free, one image at a time without an account. Without a paid plan the licence covers personal, non-commercial use only; selling the cut files needs Advanced — see pricing.
- How do I convert a logo PNG to SVG for Cricut?
- Drop the PNG on this page, download the SVG and upload it to Design Space. Expect three things from a logo: the transparent background comes back as a white shape to delete; white parts of the logo merge into that background (in the test logo on logo to vector, a white triangle came back in the same #FFFFFF as the background); and lettering comes back as outlined shapes, not editable text. Flat colours come back clean: that three-colour logo traced into 4 shapes, on Balanced and on Compact alike.
- Is PNG or SVG better for Cricut?
- For cutting, SVG. A PNG is a grid of pixels, so cutting software has to find an outline in it; an SVG already is the outlines, one shape per colour, and stays sharp at any size.
- How do I make a layered SVG file for Cricut?
- Start from flat art with a few solid colours and empty space around it, trace it, and delete the full-canvas background shape. Each remaining colour is a stacked layer.
- Can I turn a photo into an SVG for Cricut?
- You can trace it, but every shade becomes its own shape, so a photo comes out as hundreds of overlapping pieces rather than something you would cut. Reduce it to a few flat colours in an image editor first, then trace that.
- Why is there a square around my traced design?
- That is the background. Transparency is flattened onto white before tracing, so the SVG starts with a shape covering the whole canvas. Delete or hide it before cutting — after checking that it really is the background colour.
- Why is my design the wrong size after import?
- The SVG is sized in the pixels of the trace canvas, about 600,000 pixels at most on this site. We have not tested how each cutting program converts that to inches or centimetres, so set the final size there.
- Can I sell the cut files I make?
- Selling the files is resale of the output, which the Advanced licence covers. Starter and the free tier are personal, non-commercial; Pro covers commercial use such as client work. The pricing page compares the plans.