How can I tell if my SVG contains real vector paths?

Open it in a text editor and look at the elements. Genuine tracing produces elements with coordinate data you can scale forever; an embedded conversion shows a single element with a long base64 string — that one is still your PNG's pixels in a costume.

Which PNGs convert to SVG well?

Flat-color logos, silhouettes, line drawings, and text-free marks with strong contrast — trace algorithms rebuild those into clean paths. Photographs, screenshots, and anything with gradients or soft shadows trace into a mess of blobs, and are better embedded or left raster.

Is the PNG's transparent background preserved?

Yes, either way. A traced result simply draws no geometry where the PNG was transparent, and an embedded PNG keeps its own alpha channel inside the SVG. The graphic will sit cleanly on any page background.

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PNG to SVG conversion can rebuild flat logos and icons as genuine vector paths through tracing, ready to scale without pixelation. That only holds for simple, high-contrast art; photos and soft gradients end up as a bitmap embedded inside an SVG shell instead of real geometry.

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Why convert PNG to SVG?

Recover a scalable logo when the original Figma or Illustrator file is lost and only a PNG export survives.
Prepare flat artwork for Cricut and Silhouette cutting machines, which follow vector paths — verify the trace before cutting.
Meet marketplace and design-system requirements that mandate .svg icon assets.

Tip: Zoom into the traced result before shipping it: clean two-tone logos vectorize well, while anti-aliased edges can produce lumpy outlines that need smoothing.

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Upload your PNG file using the area above.
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Click Start and wait for the conversion to finish.
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