Step 1: Supply your TIFF files using the button above or by haul and lay.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Get your converted SVG files.
TIFF to SVG Conversion FAQ
What does the TIFF to SVG converter do?
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TIFF is a pixel-grid image. Converting to SVG traces the pixels into vector paths — best for logos, icons, and line art. Photographs do not vectorise cleanly, so the result will look stylised rather than photoreal.
Will transparency in my TIFF be preserved in the SVG?
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Yes. Both TIFF and SVG support an alpha channel, so transparent and semi-transparent regions carry through unchanged.
Can I animate the result of converting TIFF to SVG?
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TIFF is a single still, so the SVG output will also be a single frame. Use a multi-image upload plus the Merge tool to build an animated SVG from several stills.
What output quality should I expect from TIFF to SVG?
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Default settings target broadcast / web quality — visually identical to the source for most viewers. For archival use, pick the highest quality option in the converter settings.
Can a TIFF photo really be converted into a clean SVG?
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Only up to a point, and it is worth setting expectations first. Tracing turns pixel regions into paths, which works well for logos, line art and flat-colour graphics with clear boundaries. A photograph has no such boundaries, so the trace yields either a crude posterised approximation or an SVG with tens of thousands of paths that is larger and slower to render than the original. SVG cannot represent a photograph — tracing one produces either a crude approximation or a file larger than the original raster.
What happens to the layers in my TIFF file?
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They are flattened, permanently, into one composited image. Blend modes, masks, adjustment layers and editable text are all resolved into final pixels because SVG has no structure to hold them. Keep the TIFF as the working master and treat the SVG strictly as an export. TIFF handles CMYK, 16-bit depth, embedded ICC profiles and multi-page documents, which is exactly what print and archival workflows require.
Will my CMYK colour survive the conversion to SVG?
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It is converted to sRGB, because SVG has no CMYK mode. For screen use that is exactly what you want. For commercial print it is not — the gamut shift changes how saturated colours reproduce on press, so send the printer the original TIFF rather than the SVG.
Does the SVG keep the EXIF data from my TIFF?
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By default yes, wherever the target has somewhere to put it — camera model, exposure settings, lens and GPS coordinates all carry across. GPS is the field worth thinking about: if the image is going to be published, use the strip-metadata option so you are not broadcasting where the photo was taken. TIFF is the Tagged Image File Format from 1986, and it is the format scanning, publishing and archiving industries standardised on.
How does text inside the SVG behave?
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In an SVG, text is real text — selectable, searchable and re-styleable, and it needs the font to be available or embedded to render as intended. Converting away from SVG turns that text into pixels or into document text depending on the target; converting towards SVG only produces real text if the source had a text layer to begin with.
Is anything lost converting between TIFF and SVG?
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No pixel data, no. Both formats store the image without lossy compression, so the picture that comes out is identical to the one that went in and the conversion can be repeated indefinitely. What changes is file size, and which features travel — colour depth, embedded profiles, layers and animation are all supported unevenly between lossless formats. TIFF is a container more than a codec: it can hold uncompressed, LZW, ZIP or even JPEG data, at up to 32 bits per channel, with multiple pages in one file. An SVG stores shapes as mathematical paths and text as text, not as pixels, so it is a document rather than a raster grid.
Is there a file-size limit when converting TIFF to SVG?
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Anonymous uploads are capped at a generous default; signed-in free accounts get a higher cap, and Pro accounts have no per-file limit. Browser memory is usually the practical constraint long before our server-side limits kick in.
Can I batch-convert several TIFF files to SVG at once?
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Yes. Drop or pick multiple TIFF files in one upload — the converter processes them in parallel and returns a ZIP of the SVG results. There is no need to repeat the upload step per file.
