Affinity Designer 2 Trace Image 2024 - The best free tool so far

Looking for the best free option to vectorise images now vectorizer.ai is no longer free? In this video I'll share the best free tool I found so far which has by far the best results from the various free options.
We will take a quick look how it works and also take a look in Affinity Designer how the created file looks
LInk to svgconverter
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Some alternatives
Free:
PhotoPea www,photopea.com (use image-vectorise bitmap from menu)
Inkscape www.inkscape.org (trace bitmap function)
Paid:
Super Vectorizer Pro (mac only, great for black and white line-art)
www.svgvector....
Vector Magic (mac/windows/web - best)
vectormagic.com/
Logoist5 (mac/ios, is available with discount, vectorize only app also available)
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[@PawFromTheBroons]

Nice find!
It makes the continuous absence of a Trace tool, in Designer 2.4, even more unexcusable.
I have Inkscape installed, just to roundtrip to it for its AutoTrace.

[@Dopesideofthemoon]

Pretty good!!

[@oisgrafika]

Im still using vectorizer, but i screenshot that image and then autotrace in corel draw. Its really saving my time

[@Graphicalfinity]

😂😂

[@Xero_Wolf]

The title gave me the wrong immersion. I thought that Affinity Designer had this feature now.

[@Graphicalfinity]

We are all hoping for it :)

[@timothychinye6008]

I found Photopea to be literally perfect. Honestly, better than vectorizer was (tbh it's been a few months since I used vectorizer).

[@Graphicalfinity]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing

[@addyhongt]

thank for your instructions

[@Graphicalfinity]

You are welcome!

[@jawneethecurious]

Thank you, very useful!

[@Graphicalfinity]

You're welcome!

[@jantepas7511]

Thanks for guiding!

[@Graphicalfinity]

Any time!

[@winter_metal]

In my case I always using Figma with tracing plugin, it was made by a creator so we need to pay, I think it was $5 at that time, and fully functional as expected to trace, even quite complex logo, and it has multicolor tracing too

[@Graphicalfinity]

Thank you for sharing! Great tip.

[@lymusjones8538]

Inkscape does this for free

[@mikefamm5712]

Inkscape has a feature that’s comparable to illustrator’s trace tool?

[@Graphicalfinity]

Yep! Inkscape is pretty cool

[@kaizu4914]

sad paid program can't compare to FOSS

[@LizzieMayne]

Brilliant thank you. Is there a way of cleaning up the excess nodes whilst keeping the integrity of the shapes?

[@Graphicalfinity]

If i am not mistaken, affinity designer has a basic simplify path option in the node toolbar, which slightly decreases the nodes without affecting the curve too much

[@MissIdolize]

Good demo, thanks. A bit off-topic, I know but can I ask who the black & white character with the top hat and swag bag is, or what he is related to if anything? Many thanks..

[@Graphicalfinity]

Thank you. :) The monopoly (monocle) man

[@MissIdolize]

@@Graphicalfinity YESSS.. I knew he wore a monocle! The Mandela effect is wrong!

[@Graphicalfinity]

@@MissIdolize i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oiAAAOSwf1Bi~pX-/s-l1200.webp

[@MissIdolize]

@@Graphicalfinity Thank you 😊

[@katm1884]

can you use "transform all" on objects on different artboards?

[@MacBabba65]

Boring!!. Haven't they written in there terms "free, only for using the api"? Only for the betaversion - i believe. I'm using Vector Magic for more than a decade. But ist outdated and there is no further developement. It comes also from Cedar Lake ... 😞

[@Graphicalfinity]

Vector Magic has indeed been my choice for many years! Best investment i ever did :)

[@jeanrenaudviers]

Only fills, no strokes. Old Adobe trace did it.

[@StillPictureProduction]

Try to leave Adobe because of subscriptions and then here we are 😂

[@Graphicalfinity]

😹

[@gandolfred]

I tried a new option. He does a lot worse with the vectorization process. Especially visible in the details.

[@Graphicalfinity]

Totally true! Nothing beats vectorizer ai, but from the free online tools, svgconverter is the best so far

[@stephen_himself]

Very much doubt the image is not uploaded to a server and that it is done locally.

[@Graphicalfinity]

You might be right... i probably got confused with another tool.. but i'll check.

[@CBM64]

Thanks, interesting video. How's Vector Magic vs Vectorizer? Because I see both services are operated by Cedar Lake Ventures

[@Graphicalfinity]

Personally i think vector magic is the best tool after vectorizer.ai, it can't beat it but is very close and has more options for customisation.

[@sayitaintso4940]

He tagged it as affinity designer but using another program to do it lamer than lame...lol

[@Graphicalfinity]

:) 'cause AD has no tracer

[@Solarsystemrdffdfyyhh]

Inkscape

[@Graphicalfinity]

Rulez :)

[@cjsSeidel.and.art.]

wow......

[@Graphicalfinity]

:)

[@AnonymouslyP91]

This subscription system is getting ridiculous

[@Graphicalfinity]

Couldn’t agree more

[@michaeljkeeney]

OMG that app sucks!