When clicking on “High Fidelity Photo” the process will start tracing the image. You know it is selected when there is a blue box around your image. We are going to have Illustrator trace our image and turn it from pixels into lines and shapes but first we will use the tracing options.Click on the small down arrow button next to “Image Trace” and click on “High Fidelity Photo” In contrast, there are numerous services available online that claim to convert bitmaps to vectors, but that in reality just embed the pixels without actually tracing them into vector shapes. At the top menu bar, go to File, Open, and then choose the file you want to open.Ĭlick on the selection tool (the black arrow) in the top of the left tool bar and then click on your image to select it. Vector Magic always traces your bitmap, carefully teasing out the underlying shapes in it, and provides you with a real vector image with all of its benefits. If you need to embed an image to SVG, click the Embed JPG to SVG button. Note: You can upload only one file for the operation. In this tutorial we will use the image below:Ģ. Click inside the file drop area to upload a JPG file or drag & drop JPG.
In this tutorial we will learn how to vectorize an image using Adobe Illustrator CS6 software. Thus, by creating a vector version of the bitmap image (not always possible, it depends on the original image), we get a larger format as required and then export to bitmap format if necessary. In our case we had to resort to this technique many times when logos or other graphic information provided by our customers do not have adequate resolution and the quality loss is evident when we need to resize them.
Sometimes you need to convert a pixel image (jpg, png, gif, etc) to vector graphics, and there are a number of reasons that can lead to need this conversion.