# Phantom lines in graphic on preview

**URL:** <https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231>\
**Category:** Snapmaker2.0 Troubleshooting guides\
**Created:** [June 12, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231 "2026-06-12T21:50:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Strdochlan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Strdochlan](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Strdochlan)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231/1 "2026-06-12T21:50:49Z")

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What am I doing wrong? I keep getting this in the preview and don’t want it in the final project.

 ![Screenshot deer](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/2/b/2b2af9e8870453e00bf59045a6bd9557d348a11b.png)

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**Author:** ![clewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.snapmaker.com/clewis/32/3255_2.png) [@clewis](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/clewis)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2026, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231/2 "2026-06-12T22:51:51Z")

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What’s the source image? To me, those look like faint compression artifacts. You might have some very very faint lines in the image. If that’s the case, photoshop or Gimp should let you remove them, and save in a non compressed format so they don’t come back.

Can you upload the original?

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**Author:** ![Strdochlan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Strdochlan](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Strdochlan)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231/3 "2026-06-13T03:03:20Z")

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This is the original.

 ![deer 1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/snapmaker/original/3X/d/4/d44f6eedef446947e81c41f326b70e122a143bde.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Boxkite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@Boxkite](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Boxkite)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231/4 "2026-06-13T09:20:59Z")

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It’s a JPEG?  
You can see the grey shimmering around the edges.  
The software thinks it’s part of the image.  
It will need a clean up.  
Or if the source is clean then try to make a file in a different format.

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**Author:** ![Cadae](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.snapmaker.com/cadae/32/31718_2.png) [@Cadae](https://forum.snapmaker.com/u/Cadae)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://forum.snapmaker.com/t/phantom-lines-in-graphic-on-preview/42231/5 "2026-06-13T20:38:03Z")

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the image is very low resolution and has lots of artifacts, if you run it through a jpg to svg converter it should clean it up. I have had luck with this converter in the past [JPG to SVG — Raster to Vector — Convertio](https://convertio.co/jpg-svg/)