PSD to SVG
Trace a PSD image into SVG vector paths. This reads the pixels and redraws them as shapes, so the result is a new drawing rather than a recovered original. Logos, icons, line art, and anything with flat colour and clean edges come out well; photographs, soft gradients, and fine texture do not. A PSD is flattened before tracing, so layers, masks, and effects are baked in. If the PSD contains real vector shape or text layers, those are already vectors and exporting them from Photoshop directly will beat anything a tracer can reconstruct. Runs on your own Vistalyth Tools instance. Files never reach a third party.
Features
- Traces PSD pixels into SVG paths, which is a redraw and not a 1:1 vector recovery
- Tuned for flat colour and hard edges; a poor fit for photographic content
- Batch tracing across many PSD files
- Your PSD files are processed on your own server and never uploaded anywhere
What you can do
- Rebuild a logo you only have as a PSD into something that scales cleanly
- Turn scanned line art or a signature into editable SVG paths
- Prepare artwork for cutting, engraving, or large-format print from a raster source
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
Vistalyth Tools runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with PSD to SVG are never uploaded to third-party servers. Deploy a single Docker container and process files with full privacy, no watermarks, and no usage limits. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this recover the original vectors?
- No, and nothing can. Once artwork has been rasterised the paths are gone. This traces the pixels into new SVG paths that approximate them. If the true vector source exists anywhere, use that instead.
- Why does my photo look wrong as SVG?
- Because tracing has to reduce continuous tone to a finite set of filled shapes, so a photograph becomes a posterised blob. Vectorisation is for logos and line art.
- Any tips for getting a better trace from a PSD?
- Flatten deliberately in Photoshop first if you care which layers win. Left alone, the converter composites everything visible and you get whatever that produces.
- Can I edit the result?
- Yes. The output is ordinary SVG that opens in Illustrator, Inkscape, Figma, or a text editor.
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