Turn a PNG or JPG into an SVG your Cricut can actually cut. Two modes: a single-color silhouette for stickers and vinyl, or layered multi-color for layered designs. Everything runs in your browser — nothing uploads.
Upload an image. Pick single-color for a clean cut line, or multi-color for layered designs. Then download the SVG and upload it to Design Space.
Cricut Design Space doesn't cut pictures — it cuts paths. A cut-ready SVG has to be a closed, solid shape with no gradients, no drop shadows, and no semi-transparent pixels. Those elements look fine on screen but translate into nothing (or a thousand tiny fragments) when the blade tries to follow them.
The good news: if your source image is a flat, solid-color design — a logo, a word, a simple illustration — conversion is straightforward. The bad news: a photograph will never cut cleanly, because a photo has no clean edges for the blade to follow. For photos, you want the single-color silhouette mode below, which turns the subject into a solid cut shape.
Pick the mode that matches what you're actually cutting:
.svg file, and click Open.Most "my Cricut won't cut my SVG" problems trace back to the file, not the machine. The three most common:
Upload your PNG or JPG to the converter at the top of this page, pick single-color or multi-color mode, and download the SVG — free, no signup, nothing uploaded to a server. Then import it into Cricut Design Space via Upload → Upload Image → Cut image.
Usually the file has gradients, shadows, or semi-transparent areas that can't be cut, or it was traced from a photograph with no clean edges. Convert to solid colors (or a silhouette) and try again. For photos, use the single-color silhouette mode instead of multi-color tracing.
Not directly — a photo has no cut lines. You can cut a silhouette of the photo's subject (a solid shape traced from its edges), but not the photo itself. That's what the single-color silhouette mode is for. To cut an actual photographic image, Cricut's "Print then Cut" feature prints it first and cuts the outline.
As many layers as you want to cut, since each color becomes its own cut layer. But each color must be a flat, solid fill — no gradients or transparency. The multi-color mode in the converter above traces each color as a separate layer you can recolor in Design Space.