Step 1: Drop the PNG onto the canvas
Drag the .png onto app.svgsketch.com. The image becomes a placed bitmap (an SVG <image> element), which is a fine starting point but is not yet vector geometry.
Step 2: Run vectorize
With the image selected, open the Image panel and click "Vectorize...". For high-contrast logos and icons, switch Mode to Monochrome and tune the B&W Threshold. For colored artwork, stay in Color mode and use Color Precision and the Color Limit (8 to 512 colors) to control how many fills the trace produces.
Pick an Output Style: Smooth Curves for logos and illustrations, Straight Lines for hard-edged diagrams, Pixel Edges or Lossless (Bit-Exact) for pixel art. The side-by-side preview and the SSIM/PSNR/ΔE quality strip show exactly how close the trace is before you commit. More detail produces more nodes, which means a heavier file.
Step 3: Simplify the traced paths
Vectorizer output is often over-noded. Select a traced path, switch to the Edit tool (E), and run Shape > Simplify Path (Ctrl+Shift+{) until anchor count drops with no visible loss in shape - the tolerance is adjustable from the Simplify Options caret in the edit toolbar. Raising Filter Speckle in the vectorize dialog before converting also removes noise fragments at the source.
Step 4: Clean colors
Vectorize produces filled regions. Adjust fill colors on the Appearance panel - tracing picks averaged colors that often need snapping to exact brand values. With "Recognize shapes" enabled, circles and rectangles in the source import as first-class editable shapes instead of paths.
Step 5: Review the replacement
When you click Convert, the traced paths replace the placed PNG at its exact position and size - the original bitmap is removed in the same undoable step, so the document is pure vector immediately. Press Ctrl+Z if you want to go back and re-trace with different settings.
Step 6: Export the SVG
In the Export panel, choose SVG and enable "Optimize with SVGO". The result is a small, clean .svg you can scale infinitely and version-control. Keep the original PNG for reference but ship the SVG.