Guides and tests
How to get clean SVGs for Cricut, Silhouette, lasers and vinyl, and how SVG Me compares with other tracers.
How-to guides
How to make an SVG for Cricut from a pictureTurn a PNG or JPG into a clean, layered SVG for Cricut Design Space: choose a good source, trace it, pick colors, upload and cut. Step-by-step guide.Why are my Cricut cuts jagged?Jagged or torn Cricut cuts come from the file, the design size or the machine. How to tell which, and how to fix each one.How to layer vinyl from a multi-color SVGPlan colors, cut each layer, weed, and stack vinyl layers so they line up, for adhesive and heat transfer vinyl. Step-by-step guide.How to prepare an SVG for LightBurnGet clean, closed vector shapes into LightBurn: trace your image, choose cut outlines or filled shapes, import, set layers and test.
Comparisons and tests
Image-to-SVG converters, tested on the same filesWe traced 15 designs, clean and as low-quality JPEGs, with SVG Me, VTracer and Potrace (Inkscape's engine) and measured accuracy, anchor points, colors and stray specks.An alternative to Inkscape's Trace BitmapAn alternative to Inkscape's Trace Bitmap for multi-color images and blurry JPEGs: clean colors, fewer nodes, no speckles to clean up. With test results.A VTracer alternative for cut-ready SVGsVTracer powers many free online vectorizers. From low-quality JPEGs it kept a median of 133 colors in our test; SVG Me kept 4. See the comparison.