Convert a photo into a posterized vector illustration with flat color areas — you choose how many colors.
Left: a compressed JPEG. Right: the clean SVG from Shapesoda. Drag to compare.
A photo is made of millions of subtly different colors, and no vector file can reproduce it exactly while staying simple. What Shapesoda can do is turn a photo into vector art: it reduces the picture to a set of flat color areas — a posterized, poster-like look — and traces each area into smooth shapes. The result scales to any size and works well for posters, stickers, stencils and stylized portraits.
The vector will not look like the original photo up close: smooth gradients become bands of flat color, and fine texture such as hair or foliage becomes many small shapes. For the cleanest vector art, pick photos with a clear subject, strong contrast and a simple background.
Smooth Bézier curves with only the nodes the shape needs. Easy to edit and cut.
Color fades become real SVG gradients you can edit.
SVG, PDF, EPS, AI, DXF and PNG from one result.
Connect Shapesoda to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Recolor, draw, pick colors or remove shapes. No Illustrator needed.
Send a JPG or PNG, get an SVG back. Add vectorization to your app.
No. Photos become posterized images with flat color areas. That is the nature of vector graphics, and it is the look many posters and stickers are after.
Photos contain a lot of detail, so they produce many shapes. Reduce the number of colors, lower Output detail or raise the minimum shape size to get a smaller file.
No. They are processed in memory and never used for training. The recent images list lives only in your browser.
Without a plan, one credit is one downloaded image, in any format. The Personal plan needs no credits on the website; the API plan adds credits every month. Re-downloading the same image — even in another format — is free for 30 days.
Not while your API plan is active: unused credits roll over, up to 5 months’ worth. When the plan ends, its credits expire. The free credit for new accounts does not expire.
Only when you need it. The editor keeps your image in memory only while you work, and an API request for a single format keeps nothing. When you ask the API for several formats, request storage, or use the MCP server, the image and the results are kept for 24 hours, encrypted with a key that only you receive (anyone with the result link can download it), then deleted automatically. We never use your images to train models. The list of recent images on the start screen lives only in your browser.
You do. You keep all rights to the images you upload and to the vectors made from them — we claim none. Please upload only images you have the right to use.
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