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It's extremely disappointing this feature is still not implemented almost 8 years after the original post. I've used Inkscape and its trace feature, but Inkscape is crash prone and performs poorly with any slightly complex document (such as traced vectors). I am not a professional graphic designer, I bought Affinity Designer assuming it would be a tool to cover all of my 'intermediate level user' vector graphics needs. The ability to automatically convert a raster to vector image is absolutely one of them. I don't expect it to be perfect, I'd be happy with a reliable feature that gives decent results with non-trivial images and saves possibly hours of my time. With such feature gaps I struggle to understand how you can call this software "Best in class" when Illustrator is clearly that despite its excessive cost. I have even seen that this was a feature in the predecessor of Affinity Designer, about a decade ago. It's bizarre that in the time since and with so many requests it is still missing. So I've found myself back in Inkscape far more than Designer in the past 6 months. This is not good! As such I really don't have many good things to say about Designer when talking with others, yet. I really hope you Affinity can change that.