Turns the dark shapes of a TIFF into a one-color EPS outline: ideal for logos, signatures and line art.
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Up to 10 files · 50 MB each
Click the upload area or drag your TIFF files onto it: up to 10 files at once, 50 MB each.
Each image is made grayscale, and everything darker than mid-gray is traced into smooth black filled shapes. Light areas are left out. This takes a few seconds per file.
Download each EPS file, or all of them as one ZIP.
The dark parts of your TIFF become smooth black filled shapes, ready to recolor or print.
The result is outlines, not pixels, so it stays sharp when you scale it up for print or cutting.
Works in Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity Designer and Inkscape (with Ghostscript).
No account and no watermark. Up to 10 files at once, 50 MB each. Uploaded and converted files are deleted automatically within 2 hours.
A one-color logo or icon in TIFF becomes clean EPS black filled shapes. Multi-color logos come out as a single silhouette: every color darker than mid-gray is traced the same way.
Scanned signatures, ink drawings and pencil sketches with strong lines trace well. The paper disappears because it is lighter than mid-gray, leaving only the lines.
Logos and artwork for print shops, sign makers and vinyl cutters that ask for EPS.
TIFF stores a grid of colored pixels. The EPS you get here holds black filled shapes in an EPS (PostScript) file: the outline of the image's dark areas, traced from pixels into smooth curves.
| Aspect | TIFF | EPS |
|---|---|---|
| Color | Every color and shade of gray | One color: dark areas become black shapes |
| What is kept | Every pixel | Areas darker than mid-gray; lighter areas are dropped |
| Enlarging | Blurs or pixelates when scaled up | Outlines stay sharp when scaled up |
| Fine detail | Kept exactly | Curves smoothed; specks of a pixel or two dropped |
| Opens in | Image editors and viewers (most web browsers cannot show TIFF) | Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity Designer and Inkscape (with Ghostscript) |
| Best for | Photos and multi-color images | Logos, line art, signatures and cut files |
Convert TIFF to EPS when the image is a logo, icon, signature or drawing with clear dark shapes on a light background. For photos or multi-color artwork, keep the TIFF: the trace would reduce it to a one-color silhouette.
This converter traces your TIFF into black filled shapes in an EPS (PostScript) file. It is built for simple, high-contrast images: logos, icons, signatures, stamps, line drawings and shapes you want to cut with a laser or vinyl cutter. Knowing what the trace keeps helps you get a clean result the first time.
The image is turned into grayscale, and every area darker than mid-gray is traced into black filled shapes; everything lighter is treated as background and left out. Colors are not kept: a dark red circle and a dark blue square come out exactly the same, while yellow, pale pink or light gray parts disappear completely. Curves are smoothed, and tiny specks (a pixel or two) are removed as noise. If your download is empty, the image had no areas darker than mid-gray.
Only the first page of a multi-page TIFF is traced. Scans of drawings and documents work well when the lines are clearly darker than the paper. Your TIFF is converted to JPG before tracing, which adds slight noise along edges; on clear dark-on-light artwork the mid-gray threshold hides almost all of it. For the best outline, use dark shapes on a plain light background, at least a few hundred pixels across. Darken light-colored parts before uploading if you want them traced, and remove backgrounds that are gray or patterned.
The file opens in Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity Designer and Inkscape (with Ghostscript). Open the EPS in a vector editor such as Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Affinity Designer and change the fill color of the shapes. Web browsers cannot display EPS. Open it in a design program to check it, or convert it to SVG or PNG here.
For a logo, signature or drawing with clear dark lines, the EPS is a sharp, scalable outline you can recolor, print or cut. For photos and multi-color artwork, a trace is not the right tool: keep the original TIFF, or have the artwork redrawn by hand in a vector editor.