Any Image to a Cut-Ready SVG for Cricut
Upload a logo, a drawing or a photo of one. It is traced into clean, closed cut paths, sized in millimetres or inches, and ready for Cricut Design Space - in your browser, with nothing uploaded.
Works with: Cricut Design Space · Maker 3 · Explore 3 · Joy Xtra · Venture
Drop several files at once to convert the whole folder in one pass.
× removes a colour and its shapes; click a swatch to change it. Every format follows.
Batch
Every file is traced on its own at its own resolution, with the settings in the panel. A file converted here comes out identical to the same file converted by itself.
Every format
See it on your product
Put this artwork on a 3D mug, tumbler, sign, phone case or canvas, turn it all the way round, or drop it onto a photograph of your own blank. The preview page has the product picker, the colours and the placement controls.
Open the preview and renderConversion settings
Trace settings
Full-colour trace for print and web.
Fine-tune
Raise it to clear dust, grain and stray dots; 0 keeps every mark.
Untick for pixel art: the outline then follows every pixel edge.
With Remove background: how close a colour must be to the background to go with it.
Machine output
Height follows the source aspect ratio.
Laser and Router follow the traced outlines. Engrave photo burns the picture itself, line by line, for photos and portraits.
Heat transfer vinyl is pressed face down, so it has to be cut mirrored. The second box is the overcut in millimetres: a drag knife starts each shape pointing the wrong way, and running past the start covers that stretch properly so the piece weeds out clean.
Beam or bit width. Left at zero the tool runs down the centre of the line, so a part finishes one tool width undersize. Set it and the path is offset by half, with holes offset the opposite way.
Holes before the part that holds them, so nothing comes loose while there is still cutting to do. Also shortens the travel between cuts.
What Cricut mode does to your file
Flat colour, no gradients
Shading is traced as solid colour. A blade follows outlines, and Design Space fills a gradient with black or drops it.
What you see is what you cut
Every colour is its own shape and nothing is hidden underneath another, so no piece is cut twice and every layer is one vinyl colour.
No specks, no pinholes
Details smaller than 1 mm across at the size you set are left out, because a blade tears them and nobody can weed them. The page says how many, and making the design wider keeps them.
Lettering kept sharp
Small letters are traced along their own edges rather than rounded into blobs, and text in an SVG is turned into outlines, so no letter goes missing on the mat.
Arrives at its real size
The SVG states its width in inches or millimetres, so Design Space opens it at the size you chose instead of guessing from pixels.
Nothing but cut paths
Plain filled paths only: no embedded photo, no script, no animation, no hidden layer for Design Space to trip on. A cut-ready ZIP holds the SVG and a DXF together.
Machines it works with
Cricut
- Maker 3
- Maker
- Explore 3
- Explore Air 2
- Joy
- Joy Xtra
- Venture
Silhouette
- Cameo 5
- Cameo 4
- Cameo Pro
- Portrait 3
- Curio 2
Brother
- ScanNCut DX
- ScanNCut SDX
Set up for a single machine, with its work area: Cricut Maker 3 · Cricut Explore 3 · Cricut Joy · Cricut Joy Xtra · Silhouette Cameo 5 · Brother ScanNCut.
What people make with it
T-shirts and totes
Iron-on vinyl (HTV) for shirts, onesies and bags; mirror it before cutting.
Vinyl decals
Wall decals, car stickers, tumbler and laptop wraps.
Paper crafts
Cards, cake toppers, party decorations and scrapbook pages.
Stickers and labels
Planner stickers, product labels and packaging.
Home decor
Wood signs, stencils, pillow covers.
Weddings and events
Invitations, place cards, table numbers, favours.
Questions
How do I turn a picture into an SVG for my Cricut?
Drop the picture on this page. It is traced into cut paths, and the SVG downloads at the width you set. In Design Space choose Upload, then Upload Image, and pick the SVG: it arrives as a cut image at that size.
Why not use Design Space's own image upload?
Design Space traces a picture into one layer and leaves you to erase the background and clean the edges by hand. Here each colour becomes its own layer, specks and pinholes too small to cut are removed, and the file states its real size.
Will it cut cleanly on vinyl?
The outlines are closed and smoothed, and anything under 1 mm across at your size is left out, which is below what a fine-point blade cuts and a person can weed. If a design is very detailed, make it wider before downloading.
Do I need to remove the background first?
No. A plain background is left out automatically, including the grey-and-white checkerboard some downloads have baked into them. For a busy photo background, tick Remove background.
Does it work with Silhouette and ScanNCut too?
Yes. Silhouette Studio Designer Edition and above opens the SVG; the Basic edition takes the DXF from the cut-ready ZIP. Brother CanvasWorkspace opens the SVG.
Do I need Cricut Access?
No. The SVG is your own file, uploaded to Design Space like any image.
Is it free?
Yes, and nothing is uploaded: the tracing runs in your browser.