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Convert an image into a vector EPS

Nobody wakes up wanting an EPS. The request arrives second-hand: a print broker's artwork specification, a sign shop's intake form, a merch supplier's checklist, each carrying one line that says vector EPS and not a word about why. This page turns a PNG, JPEG or WEBP into that file, and it also answers the question the person who asked will not answer for you: is EPS what the job needs, or just what the template has always said?

Often it is exactly right. Encapsulated PostScript is the container print production grew up on, and a shop built around it will have an intake check that refuses everything else. Often it is not. When the requirement was typed once and never revisited, a vector PDF carries the same curve data in a container the whole office can open, and an SVG is the better file the moment the artwork goes near a browser, a cutting machine or a design tool.

Either way, you are not choosing a fidelity tier. The tracer segments colour, models the anti-aliased edges and fits curves once; every writer then serialises those same shapes. EPS is a different container, not a cheaper route through the engine.

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How it works

  1. Drop in the PNG, JPEG or WEBP your supplier is waiting on - one image per conversion, up to 25 MB and 40 megapixels.
  2. Tick eps in the format list, and pdf as well if you want a file you can open and check; two or more formats also arrive as a ZIP.
  3. Set the colour count: 2 for a single-colour mark, 8-16 for a flat logo or a badge with a few tones.
  4. Convert and read the preview carefully - the shapes you see are the shapes the EPS will contain.
  5. Sign in with Google (free) to download, then open the EPS once yourself before you forward it.
A badge with tonal shading traced into flat vector shapes, before and after — source image A badge with tonal shading traced into flat vector shapes, before and after — vector result
A badge with tonal shading traced into flat vector shapes, before and after

Who this is for

Most people land here holding the wrong original: a JPEG pulled off the website, or a PNG exported from a slide deck, while the vector master left with a laptop years ago. The supplier will not redraw it, so the file has to come from the picture you still have.

EPS is the right answer when the requirement is structural rather than habitual: a portal that accepts only .eps, a licensing or brand pack whose deliverables list names the format, or a production tool from the PostScript era with a working EPS import path and nothing newer behind it. Send it and stop thinking about it.

When the requirement is soft, choose by destination instead. The PDF is better if the file gets looked at, mailed around and proofed: one PDF-1.4 page, cubic curves, the same shapes, and it opens on a phone. The SVG is better for the web, for cutting software and for design tools, and with DXF it is one of the two outputs that accept a millimetre measurement. DXF is for contours that become a toolpath rather than ink. No container fixes a photograph, so logos, badges, icons, line art and lettering are what this is for.

Settings we suggest

Tick eps in the format list. Ticking pdf too costs nothing, gives you something you can inspect before forwarding, and adds a ZIP of both to the download list.

Colours run from 2 to 64: use 2 for a one-colour mark, 8-16 for a flat logo or a badge with a couple of tones (16 is the preset here), and higher only when the artwork carries that many inks.

Keep draw style on fill_shapes for anything printed as solid colour; stroke_shapes and stroke_edges write outlines instead. Leave shape stacking on cutouts: Encapsulated PostScript fills with the even-odd rule, and cut-outs keep the hole in a letter an actual hole. Grouping affects SVG only.

What you get is a header declaring EPSF-3.0 and a BoundingBox measured in points, rounded up to whole points, at one point per traced pixel: a 512 x 512 trace becomes a 512 x 512 pt box. The millimetre fields are applied to the SVG and the DXF and leave this bounding box alone, so when physical dimensions matter, state them in your mail or send the SVG alongside.

That box also follows any downscaling: images above 1.5 megapixels are reduced before tracing, so a 4000 x 3000 photograph traces at roughly 1414 x 1061. Uploads go up to 25 MB and 40 megapixels; inputs are PNG, JPEG and WEBP.

Logos and stickers typically convert in 3-12 seconds in our local measurements; fine-line or noisy images take longer. If a conversion does not finish within 60 seconds it stops and suggests fewer colours or a smaller image. Free and watermark-free: look at the traced result before you sign in, and a free Google sign-in unlocks the files - 10 conversions per hour, 60 per hour and 300 per day once signed in. Download links expire after 1 hour, and uploaded images and generated files are removed by an automatic 1-day deletion rule.

Questions

My supplier just wrote 'vector EPS'. Will this file satisfy that?

It is a real Encapsulated PostScript file: an EPSF-3.0 header, a BoundingBox in points, and artwork written as PostScript path operators rather than a bitmap in an EPS wrapper. Open it once yourself before forwarding it.

EPS or PDF: which should I actually send?

If the specification names EPS, or the upload form refuses anything else, send the EPS. Otherwise the PDF is friendlier - one PDF-1.4 page, the same cubic curves, openable by everyone in the chain. Tick both and one conversion gives you each file plus a ZIP.

I asked for 120 mm wide and the EPS measures something else. Why?

The millimetre fields are applied to the SVG and the DXF only. This bounding box is written at one point per traced pixel, so it follows the pixel grid. Tell the supplier the finished width - vector artwork scales without loss - or send the SVG, which carries the measurement.

Is the EPS a weaker output than the SVG?

No. The geometry is fitted once, by colour segmentation, an explicit anti-aliasing model and curve fitting, and all five outputs serialise those identical shapes. Detail comes from the colour count and the source image, never from the format you tick.

Can I upload an EPS or another vector file to tidy it up?

No. The converter reads raster images only - PNG, JPEG and WEBP, one image per conversion. There is no route into the engine for vector input, so an EPS here is always something we write.

Will a photograph make a usable EPS?

Technically yes, practically rarely. A high colour count turns a photo into hundreds of flat regions, a poster effect, and detailed images are the likeliest to run out the 60-second budget. A supplier asking for vector artwork of a photo usually means a redrawn mark.

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