The stickers have been gaining great popularity in those applications of messaging that we use, such as Telegram and WhatsApp. Certainly you will almost always use the same ones, although this will change if you prefer to use a variety of new and installable ones if you want it in either of the two mentioned apps.
Surely you have seen some personalized sticker that they have sent you, several of them are usually very funny when using quite curious images, some of celebrities, others including that of the person. Before that, it will be time to prepare that little image, which is a task that will take just a few minutes if you have the skill.
In the tutorial we will explain how to make WhatsApp stickers with your photos, yes, choose the ones that seem best to you and try to edit each one before uploading them. Not all of them are valid, they have to have an appropriate size, which will be 512 x 512 pixels, neither less nor more than that specifically mentioned.
First, choose your photos
Before starting to create, the appropriate thing is that you choose your photos, they have to be several, as fun as possible, make some faces. Try to always show part of the face and a small part of the body, it will not be necessary to show the entire body, as it is based on small emoticons for the application.
You can see examples of them if you have any on WhatsApp, to take shape and take what really interests you, which is the face and perhaps a bit of the shoulders. You can also do a complete one if you want, although you have the possibility to start with the basics and then try others.
The first thing is to prepare those images with an identical size of 512 x 512 pixels, cannot exceed that amount, since they have been designed to carry the same. They do not have to be deformed, the photos have to have the same size from side to side, although nothing happens if they do it a little more.
Create stickers with Sticker Maker
An ideal application when creating a package of stickers is Sticker Maker, a truly important utility among those available. It will not be necessary to know too much to start with one, you also have the possibility of doing many more later on, it does not have any limitations as it is free.
You need to give a title to that pack that you want to create, it is the first step, even before shaping each one of them, it is also the one that you will receive on WhatsApp once you upload it. The positive of it is that you will have the option that it goes in the same root as the ones you have available in the application.
Open the app, once opened in Stickerpack name put the name, for example you can use your own, in the second you have to put the author. If we decide to put «Daniel Pack», here you must put a second one so that it begins to be produced, which is the main thing to create yours with your personal photos.
Second step, crop all photos
Sticker Maker will do the work of cutting out each one of the photos in the perfect size, in the selection of the images put those photos that you want to upload and they are from the sticker pack. In the selection of the application you will see that you can select the contour you want, from the shoulders up for example.
The maximum allowed when choosing is a total of 30 photos, loading if you want two different packs it would be a total of 60 images. You can make several packages, differentiating with the name and having photos of yourself as stickers for WhatsApp, an application that is ideal to be used, but also in other tools.
Each image will be perfect to send to your contacts, go putting some other different face, among them that of smiling, angry, with the thumb up, down and many others. They try to always be varied for the use of some messages by those contacts you have in the app.
At the time of selection, click on «Pinch to zoom», choosing the part you want to see on the sticker, it is important that what you select is what matters most to you. Try to make it as clear as possible, without having to zoom too much and it fits well in those 512 x 512 pixels that is the quality of the photo.
Animate the photos as much as possible
Another possibility so that the images are not too flat is to give a little life to them, you have tools with which to edit and make them move. Imagine an animated sticker that you can send to those people with whom you talk often and can have a laugh, ideal when carrying on a conversation with a family member or a friend.
Outside the Play Store you have some like Sticky AI, also if you prefer to download one from Google Play, you have VSCO, if you manage it you can make it move. Here you can choose a GIF, online you have ideal pages that are worth so that they can have a specific movement, not having to download an app.
Once you have created it, save the photo and upload the photo to that pack of stickers as before with your photos, remember that it is essential that everything goes under the name of the previous folder. By selecting the photos you will see how they are automatically uploaded to the application, which will end up in your directory.
Using your custom stickers
After Stickers Maker has edited this, hit upload to WhatsApp, having to wait a few minutes for those megabytes to go to the WhatsApp application folder. These will be loaded and can be used at any time from WhatsApp, specifically in those known as personal.
To do this, do the following in WhatsApp:
- Launch the WhatsApp app on your phone
- Click on the icon of the little emoticons
- Go next to “GIF”, it will look like a layer what is drop down
- You will see how all your personalized stickers will be displayed