How to make custom stickers for telegram
How to Make Your Own Telegram Stickers
By Alice Kotlyarenko
Updated
Stickers are a great way to have more fun with your friends. Learn how to make your own Telegram stickers!
Static Telegram stickers are a universe of their own, with people having entire conversations in cool graphics, trashy memes, or movie quotes. And it's largely possible because Telegram allows you to make your own stickers.
The best thing about making Telegram stickers is that you don't have to have a developer account or pass a long and painful review. You just send images to a bot to create a Telegram sticker. Apart from static stickers, Telegram also allows you to create animated stickers as well as video stickers.
So, if you've been meaning to do something with all the inside jokes you and your friends have accumulated, follow this guide explaining how to make static Telegram stickers.
You don't have to be a professional graphic designer to create Telegram stickers. If you are, that's great—now you've got another free way for you to promote your art. But if you're not, don't let that stop you.
Some of the best Telegram stickers are hilarious meme-like creations, thrown together out of quotes and photos. Even basic design skills will suffice for those.
The stickers you create have to follow unified design requirements. Don't worry, though, because these are super simple:
- Telegram stickers must be PNG images with a transparent background and 512 x 512 pixels.
- Each sticker should be a separate image file. Designing and uploading them is easier on desktop than on mobile, so you might want to use Telegram for Mac, Telegram for Windows, or Telegram Web.
- The icon for your sticker pack is optional. If you'd like to have one, design a 100 x 100 PNG image with a transparent layer.
It's important to understand that using things like movie quotes to create your stickers is copyright infringement.
Yes, that's exactly how memes are made, but unlike a meme, your sticker pack will likely be taken off Telegram if the copyright owner complains. That said, there seems to be no copyright check when you upload your designs.
The average Telegram sticker pack includes between 10 and 20 stickers, but you're not limited in how many you want to upload. Some packs have over 100 stickers, and you can keep coming back and adding new ones even after you publish.
As you've probably already noticed, you don't need a Photoshop subscription to create Telegram stickers. You can design yours using a mobile sticker maker app or any of these free alternatives to Adobe software. We designed ours using the SVG-Edit web app.
Step 2: Find the Telegram Sticker Bot
Once your very own Telegram stickers are ready to roll, find the Telegram sticker bot. You can do that either by following the link above or by opening Telegram and typing "stickers" into the search field. Then click on the first @Stickers option.
You'll see the following list of commands you can use in the chat area:
- /newpack to make a static PNG/WEBP sticker set.
- /newvideo to make a set of WEBM video stickers.
- /newanimated to make an animated TGS sticker set.
- /newmasks to make a static set of masks.
- /help for full list of commands.
Click Start to start setting up your sticker pack if this is your first time creating stickers, otherwise, use the /newpack command.
The Telegram sticker bot makes it easy to upload and publish your designs for static stickers. Here's what you need to do:
- Type in the /newpack command and hit Enter on your keyboard or click the blue send button.
- Type in the name of your sticker pack and click the send arrow.
- Now click on the File (paperclip) icon to upload your first sticker.
- Deselect Compress, then enter a caption and click Add to add more files, otherwise, click Send.
- The bot will ask you to assign an emoji to your sticker. Choose an emoji that matches this sticker best and hit Enter to send it. You can assign a few, but Telegram recommends no more than two emojis per sticker.
- Repeat steps 3-4 for every Telegram sticker you want to add.
- When you're done, type in the /publish command and send it.
- If you want to add an icon for your sticker pack, upload it just like you uploaded the rest of the images and send it to the bot. If you don't have an icon, just send the /skip command, and your first sticker will become an icon for this pack.
- Finally, send the bot a short name for your sticker pack to be used in its URL. For example, the one used here is "wonderifitisstevie," so the URL is https://t.
me/addstickers/wonderifitisstevie.
Done! Click on the link to your Telegram sticker pack to see how everything looks. If you have more than 10 stickers, you can scroll through them.
Start Sending Your Telegram Stickers
Telegram doesn't have a sticker store or any other way for people to browse all existing stickers. This means your pack will be gathering dust until you and your friends start sending the stickers you made. You can make use of them while using Telegram Voice Chats to spice up your conversations.
When you click on your pack's URL, you'll see two ways to start sharing your Telegram stickers.
- Share: This will forward the link to your pack to a Telegram contact or group of your choosing. To access this, click on the three dots button in the top-right corner then click on Share Stickers. You can even use these stickers in the best Telegram Channels for sharing work like this.
- Add Stickers: This will add the pack to your collection so that you can send individual stickers to your Telegram contacts.
Your friends can then see and add the pack by tapping on the sticker you sent. That is how they spread.
More Reasons to Start Using Telegram
Stickers alone would be enough to ditch other messaging apps in favor of Telegram, but there are more reasons why Telegram is the only messenger you need. From secret chats to the ability to fix typos in the messages you've already sent, Telegram has tons of features you're likely to use.
How to Make Telegram Stickers and Use Them
- You can make Telegram stickers with image editing apps like Photoshop, GIMP, or Canva.
- Stickers can be used and sent in Telegram conversations like emojis.
- Once you publish your sticker pack, anyone on Telegram can use it in their conversations.
Many messaging apps allow you to include stickers in conversations with your friends and family.
Telegram, a popular secure messaging app, is unique in that it actually lets you upload and use your own stickers in conversations.
You can create sticker packs and show them off as much as you want. Here's how to make stickers and use them in your Telegram conversations.
How to make Telegram stickersBefore you can create Telegram stickers, you'll need image editing software that lets you create PNG files with transparent backgrounds. Adobe Photoshop is the most popular image editing software out there, but if you're looking for something less expensive, you can poke around the internet for a free alternative — we used GIMP in this instance, and there are plenty of other options available as well.
There are a few rules you need to keep in mind when designing Telegram stickers:
- Telegram stickers must be PNG files with a transparent background.
- Telegram stickers cannot be larger than 512 x 512 pixels.
- Telegram stickers cannot contain copyrighted material (such as images or quotes from popular media).
The process of creating a transparent background for your sticker varies depending on the software you're using, but in general, you'll need to add an "alpha channel" to the background in order to create transparency. Once you've added an alpha channel, anything you erase or delete in that layer will become transparent, represented by a white and gray checkerboard pattern.
With this, you can edit the image to your liking and save it as a PNG file once you're done.
Just remember that once you've made and published a pack of stickers (as we show how to do below), the stickers are public for everyone on Telegram. So if there's anything in your stickers that you're not alright with strangers seeing, leave them out.
How to add and use your sticker pack in TelegramAfter you've created your sticker pack, you'll need to upload them to Telegram before you can start using them in a chat. To do this, you'll have to contact the Telegram sticker bot.
1. Open the Telegram app and log in if prompted.
2. Tap on the search bar and type "stickers," then tap on the Telegram sticker bot once it appears. This will create a new conversation with the sticker bot; tap "Start" to begin.
Start a conversation with the Telegram sticker bot.
Chrissy Montelli/Insider 3. Type "/newpack" (without quotation marks) into the message bar and tap the blue arrow to send the message.
4. Type a name for your sticker pack in the message bar and tap the blue arrow.
After you name your sticker pack, Telegram will direct you to upload the file. Chrissy Montelli/Insider5. Now it's time to upload your first sticker.
Tap on the paperclip icon in the message bar, then tap "File," and then select the sticker you want to upload.
6. Use the emoji keyboard to type and send an emoji that applies to the sticker you just uploaded. This helps the sticker bot categorize the stickers.
7. Repeat steps five and six for each sticker you want to include in the sticker pack. Once you've finished adding stickers, type "/publish" (without quotation marks) into the message bar and tap the blue arrow.
8. Telegram will give you the option to upload an icon for your sticker pack. If you choose to do so, the icon must be 100 x 100 pixels. This isn't required, though, so if you want to skip this step, just type "/skip" (without quotation marks) into the message bar and tap the blue arrow.
The short name you choose will be incorporated in Telegram's unique link for your sticker pack, so you might have to try a few before finding one that isn't taken.
Chrissy Montelli/Insider 9. Type a short name for your sticker pack and tap the blue arrow. This will be included in the URL that Telegram creates so that you can share the sticker pack. If a short name has already been taken or isn't usable, Telegram will ask you to choose a different one.
10. Telegram will send you a link for your sticker pack. Tap on the link, then tap "Add Stickers" to download the sticker pack. You can also share the link with your friends so that they can use your stickers as well.
Telegram creates a unique link that you can share with others, allowing them to use your stickers, too.
Chrissy Montelli/Insider 11. Now that you've created and downloaded your sticker pack, you'll be able to include them in messages like any other sticker. Start a conversation with a friend and give it a try.
Once you've added them, your stickers will appear in your sticker keyboard and you can use them like any other sticker. Chrissy Montelli/InsiderChrissy Montelli
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Instructions: How to make your own stickers in Telegram
Stickers (translated from English as "stickers") generally play the same role as emoticons and emoji, expressing actions or feelings. Stickers often depict movie and cartoon characters, as well as historical figures, public figures and Internet memes with a variety of characters in the title role.
Another good thing about stickers is that not only designers and illustrators, but also ordinary users can contribute to their creation. The ability to create and share homemade stickers is provided by the Telegram messenger, created by the team of the founder of VKontakte, Pavel Durov. nine0003
So, if an idea for a set of "stickers" has long been born in your head, then with the help of the instructions below, you can bring it to life.
The bot will help
If you already have templates for pictures and Telegram is installed (not mobile, but desktop version), you need to write any message to a special bot - @Stickers. In response, it will offer the following set of commands:
/newpack - create a new set of stickers/addsticker - add a sticker to a set/delsticker - remove a sticker from a set/ordersticker - rearrange/cancel - cancel the previous action
Select the first command and send it to the bot. Next, he will offer to choose a name for the new sticker pack (just enter the name in the chat line and press enter), and then send an emoji that will match the first sticker.
It is worth noting that the bot sets limits on the resolution of uploaded images: their width must be exactly 512 pixels, and their height must not exceed the same value. The maximum image size can be no more than 350 kilobytes. The image for the future sticker must be attached through the File menu, which appears when you click on the paperclip image.
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Don't worry if it doesn't work right away - at each stage of creating a sticker, the bot will tell you how to proceed.
When the first sticker is ready, you need to select an emoji for the second sticker and upload the desired picture again. You will have to repeat these steps until all the "stickers" are ready.
To publish a new set, send the /publish command. In response, the bot will offer to come up with a short name (with it there may be problems) of the link, which in the future can be sent to friends or published on social networks. Of course, it will lead to the author's pack of stickers. nine0003
How to make a beautiful picture
It's not that difficult to create a set of stickers, but novice users may have difficulty processing the images themselves in a photo editor. For simple actions, you can use Paint. True, skill is required, since arbitrary selection is done "by hand" - it will not work to set a value of 512 pixels horizontally (and vertically too).
If it was possible to cut the image evenly, then it should be copied to a new document (copy the selected image - Ctrl + C - "Create" - paste the copied image - Ctrl + V). Do not forget that the final image size should be 512 pixels wide. The height may be less. nine0003
If you have access to the Photoshop editor, then it is better to use it to cut stickers. The algorithm is only slightly more complicated, but the output will be a neat picture with the desired parameters.
So, open the picture and take the tool "Pen" or Pen Tool (screenshot No. 1, highlighted in red). We begin to select images by setting points along the contour. At the end, we connect the last point with the first. By the way, the more points are set along the path, the smoother the clipping will look. nine0003
Next, on the options bar, find the "Paths" or Paths tab (screenshot #2, highlighted in red), right-click on "Work Path" and select "Generate Selection" from the pop-up menu.
Next you need to select the feather radius.
Optimal - 1-2 pixels. The "Smoothing" checkbox is also worth it. "OK".
After that, you can copy the selected image (Ctrl+C or open "Edit" in the "Menu" panel, then click "Copy") to transfer it to a new canvas of the desired size. nine0003
To open a new canvas, open the "File" tab in the top menu and select "New" (Ctrl+N). In the fields "Width" and "Height" set 512 pixels. "Background content" - "Transparent". Click "OK".
When a new file opens, paste the cut image from the clipboard. This can be done with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + V or "Edit" - "Paste". After that, the picture can be saved: "File" - "Save for Web" or Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S. Recall that the picture must be in .png format - you can set it in the settings in the window that opens. There you can "play around" with the level of quality, on which the size directly depends. nine0003
Stickers made by RG Digital are available here.
How to make stickers for Telegram
September 17, 2021 Technologies
Take some time to surprise your friends and make your conversations more interesting.
1. Decide on a concept
If you are reading this article, chances are you already have an idea. Recall that for greater integrity, stickers should be united by one theme, character, funny phrases or something else. nine0003
2. Select emoji
Stickers replace emoji. There are already more than 3,000 of the latter, and it is unlikely that you are going to cover everything. Therefore, it is logical to take the most popular ones in order to use them more often. Then, if desired, the sticker pack can be expanded.
Among the most popular emoticons, there are invariably the following: 😂, 😭, 🥺, 🤣, ❤️, ✨, 😍, 🙏, 😊, 🥰, 👍, 💕, 🤔.
By the way, a sticker can be assigned not to one, but to several emojis at once. So it will appear more often in the recommendations when typing. How to implement this option, consider below. nine0003
3. Prepare the pictures
The hardest part is creating images for future stickers. They must meet the following requirements:
- file format - PNG or WebP;
- resolution - 512 × 512 pixels;
- transparent background;
- white lining;
- shade;
- free license to use.
An example of a PSD template is available here. You can make stickers in any graphic editor that is at hand. For example, let's take Photoshop as the most popular, but in other programs the actions will be about the same, since the tools are similar. nine0003
Open the template from the link above or create a new 512 x 512 px file.
Drag the image into the program window and scale it to the desired size by holding the Shift key and grabbing the corner of the image. Confirm the changes by clicking on the checkmark.
Select the Magic Wand from the toolbar and use it to select the background around the object. If you can't exactly do this in one go, work on one area, then, while holding the Shift key, the second, and so on. nine0003
When you're done, press Shift + Cmd + I on macOS or Shift + Ctrl + I on Windows to invert the selection. Or use the menu "Select" → "Invert".
Press Cmd + J on macOS or Ctrl + J on Windows to copy the selection to a new layer.
Now delete the previous layer using the corresponding button.
Click on the E key or select the eraser from the toolbar. Then clean up any excess pieces of the background that do not belong to the object on the sticker. nine0003
Switch to the background layer and change its opacity to 0%.
Double-click on the sticker layer, select Stroke from the menu on the left. Use the parameters as in the screenshot or set your own.
Here, in the side menu, select "Shadow" and set the desired values. Click OK.
It remains to save the image through the menu "Export" → "Quick export to PNG".
Then repeat the process for the rest of the pictures that will be included in the set. nine0003
4. Collect the stickers in a pack
Next, you need to create a sticker pack from the prepared pictures using the special Stickers bot in Telegram. Go to the dialogue with him on this link and click "Start".
Select /newpack from the menu or command list.
