Maybe you want to turn your favorite memes into stickers.
Or you have pictures on your camera roll thatll make the perfect sticker pack.
This is the only guide you need.
Everything You Need
You need three things to get started.
Ive split this guide into three sections.
First, I want to show you how to create a sticker.
Then, well make a sticker pack out of multiple stickers.
Finally, well learn how to share and use custom stickers.
You dont need any special skills to follow along.
Lucas Gouveia / How-To Geek
Create a Sticker
Im using Photoshop, but any basic editor can get the job done.
Start by creating a canvas of 512 pixels by 512 pixels.
One of the dimensions has to be 512 pixels.
The other can be 512 pixels or smaller.
If the editor doesnt support canvas creation, you might simply resize your image to those dimensions.
The next step is toisolate it from the background.
You dont have to create a clear cut-out for your sticker.
I just prefer it with a transparent background.
Likewise, you’re free to add a white stroke to give it that classic sticker feel.
Then I double-clicked that layer to open its Layer Styles menu.
The Stroke setting puts a stroke around the isolated layer.
After the sticker is ready, export is as a PNG orWEBP(both support transparency).
Thats all you gotta make a static sticker.
If youre not interested in animated stickers, it’s possible for you to skip to the next section.
For Animated Stickers
Animated stickers are packaged in a special format that Telegram invented, called TGS.
Creating stickers with this format is so involved that itll need a guide of its own).
Creating animated stickers out of videos is a lot simpler.
You dont need any technical knowledge for it.
So that’s what we’re going to do.
Any simple video editor will do the job.
Windows has the built-in Clipchamp editor.
Just drag and drop it into the Sequences section.
From there, we drag it into the timeline.
Right-choose the clip and select Ungroup Clips.
That separates the audio from the video.
We want to remove the audio, so right-punch the audio clip and select Delete.
poke the intended endpoints with the razor tool and delete the rest.
Once again, I recommend it, but you’re able to skip this step if you want.
Im going to isolate the background and create a clean cutout for our video sticker.
poke the Effects tab and find Chroma Key: Basic under the Alpha, Mask, and Keying group.
Then hit the Eyedropper tool and tap the green area on the monitor tab.
Click Project and choose Render from the drop-down menu.
Pick these configs, and click Render to File.
This is what my file looks like.
Telegrams official bot lets you do just that.
Since we created our assets on the desktop, its more convenient to use the desktop version of Telegram.
Search @stickers in the search bar and hit the official Stickers bot.
tap the big Start button to launch the bot.
jot down /newpack and send.
This will create a new sticker pack.
Send a name for it.
Then, upload the PNG or WEBP file you created before.
Remember to upload it as a document, not as a photo.
Then, send the emoji that will link to this particular sticker.
At this point, youve added one sticker to your pack.
you’ve got the option to keep going by uploading more files and assigning emojis to each.
key in /newvideo and send to start a new video sticker pack.
Give it a name.
Then, upload the WEBM file you created before.
When youre done, jot down /publish and send.
Stickers bot asks if you want to attach an icon to your sticker pack.
you could create a 100 X 100 graphic if you like.
I skipped it with the /skip command.
Finally, give it a short name without any spaces or special characters.
The Stickers bot will use it to generate a URL.
you’re able to also share that URL with other people to share the sticker pack.
Alternatively, they can tap any one of your stickers to add the whole pack to their collections.
