PNG to CDR Converter — Turn a PNG Logo into CorelDRAW Vector
A PNG is made of pixels, so it goes blurry the moment you scale it up. Upload it here and we trace it into real vector paths inside a CorelDRAW .cdr file — sharp at business-card size or billboard size.
Transparent backgrounds stay transparent. No CorelDRAW installation, no sign-up to start, and you choose which CorelDRAW version the file is saved for.
Drop your files here or browse local directory
Up to 150 MB per file · 1 file at a time · 56 formats
Vectorization Settings
Controls how your image is converted to vectors
Better source = better vectors
Upscales your image before vectorization for sharper, cleaner results. Takes a few extra minutes.
Image Type
Output Detail
Auto = smooth curves with fewer nodes. High = more detail, more nodes.
Color Count
Fewer colors = fewer objects. Best for logos. Auto lets the engine decide.
Remove Background
Auto-detect and remove background color
Black & White Mode
Ideal for stamps, signatures, ink drawings
Quick answer
How to convert a PNG to CDR
Upload the PNG above, choose CDR as the output format, pick your CorelDRAW version, and click Convert. The image is traced into editable vector paths and downloads as a .cdr file you can scale to any size without losing sharpness.
Importing a PNG into CorelDRAW is not the same as converting it
You can drag a PNG straight into CorelDRAW, but nothing about it becomes editable. You get a picture sitting in a frame — enlarge it and it goes soft, and you cannot recolour a shape or move a letter. Converting traces the artwork into actual paths, which is a different operation entirely.
Importing the PNG
- Blurry as soon as you scale it up
- One locked object — nothing selectable inside
- Colours cannot be changed individually
- Print shops usually reject it for large format
Converting to CDR
- Sharp at any size, from a badge to a banner
- Every shape selectable and editable
- Recolour, reshape and delete individual parts
- Ready for vinyl cutting, engraving and CNC
What traces well, and what doesn't
Tracing turns areas of colour into shapes. That works beautifully for some images and poorly for others — worth knowing before you judge the result.
Logos, icons, line art, signatures, stencils, silhouettes — anything with flat colours and clean edges.
Illustrations and cartoons with a limited palette. Some fine detail may simplify slightly.
Artwork with soft gradients or drop shadows. Gradients become bands of solid colour, which can look stepped.
Photographs and heavily textured images. There is no meaningful way to reduce a photo to solid shapes — the result looks posterised.
Getting the sharpest trace
Use the highest resolution PNG you have
A 2000px logo traces far more accurately than a 300px screenshot of the same logo. Detail that is not in the pixels cannot be recovered.
Keep the background transparent
A transparent PNG lets the tracer find the true edges of the artwork instead of also outlining a white rectangle around it.
Crop out anything you do not need
Watermarks, borders and stray text all get traced too. Removing them first gives a much cleaner set of paths.
Avoid screenshots where possible
Screenshots add JPEG-style compression noise around edges, and the tracer follows that noise into wobbly outlines.
Frequently asked questions
No. Everything runs on our servers — upload the PNG, download a .cdr file. It works in any browser on Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone or Android.
It is real vector. We trace the image into paths, so you can resize it to any dimension without blurring and edit individual shapes and colours in CorelDRAW. It is not the original PNG dropped into a CDR wrapper.
Flat artwork with clean edges and a small number of solid colours — logos, icons, line art, signatures, stencils. The higher the resolution and the sharper the edges, the more accurate the traced paths.
Photographs are the wrong input for tracing. A photo has millions of subtly different pixels, and tracing has to reduce that to a finite set of solid shapes — so it comes out looking posterised. Tracing is for logos and graphics, not photographs.
Yes. A transparent PNG background stays transparent rather than becoming a white rectangle, which is what usually happens when you import a PNG into CorelDRAW directly.
Choose the version you actually have installed. CorelDRAW refuses to open files saved by a newer version, so picking the newest option is the most common reason a converted file will not open afterwards.
Yes. 10 conversions per day, up to 150 MB per file, no account needed. Pro gives unlimited conversions and 500 MB files.
Files travel over an encrypted connection, are processed in an isolated environment, and are deleted automatically after 3 hours. We never open or share your files.