Want to create WhatsApp stickers using selfies? Here's the way
Written by Shubham Sharma
Nov 17, 2018, 07:41 pm 2 min read
After a long wait, WhatsApp started rolling out stickers for its Android and iOS apps. The feature is pretty much similar to that of other messaging apps but has been received enthusiastically by WhatsApp users across the globe. More interestingly, you can not only download stickers but can also make your own packs - by turning selfies into stickers. Here's how.
WhatsApp comes with some pre-installed stickers, but you can also download more packs from Google Play Store. However, to create stickers of your own face, you'll have to create a custom pack with a third-party app. There are many apps for this, but the ones easiest to use are 'Sticker Studio' and 'Sticker Maker'. In order to proceed further, download either one of them.
Once you've downloaded the app, take a selfie or use an existing photo to make a sticker out of it. On Sticker Studio, you can do this by tapping on the '+' button at the bottom, while on Sticker Maker, you'll have to head over to the 'Create a new stickerpack' option.
Next, crop the photo with your finger to remove its background.
After selecting and cropping the first photo, you can repeat the same process and add as many as photo-stickers as you want to. Once you're done, you can export the custom-made pack into WhatsApp by hitting the publish button on Sticker Maker or the 'WhatsApp' icon on Sticker Studio. Note that you'll have to create at least three stickers to successfully add a pack.
After exporting the pack, you'll see your own images as stickers on WhatsApp.
With this capability, you can create some meme-worthy stickers of your own face and fill the gap that emojis/memojis/animojis are trying to fill. Also, who knows, future updates of these apps might bring enhanced customization options to make your stickers more interactive.
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Why use words when you can reply with a custom emoji
Emoji, stickers, and memes have become a language of their own, but sometimes what’s on offer isn’t enough. You have to get in there and craft your own. There are a few ways to do this. Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen lets you mix different emojis together.
You can also create a custom cartoon avatar of yourself using Bitmoji. WhatsApp made it possible to create your own custom stickers in its web and desktop versions, but it's still not possible within the mobile app. The other option is to put those drawing skills to use on your mobile device. This guide walks you through turning your illustrations into WhatsApp stickers using the Sticker Maker app.
Stickers and emoji aim to convey an idea or emotion, so be clear on what you want to say before you start pushing pixels around. The images below show a skeptical goblin drawn in both Infinite Painter and Pixel Studio.
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You can follow the same process with selfies and photos of your pets, friends, or colleagues if you deem them sticker-worthy.
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If your friends want to use your stickers, you can share the pack with them from the Sticker Maker app. They will need to have the app installed on their device as well.
If you want to delete your sticker pack, you can do this inside WhatsApp by first tapping the encircled plus sign next to your tray icons. Head over to the My Stickers tab and hit the trash can next to the pack you want to remove.
That's all there is to it. Making your own stickers like this is pretty easy, but getting onto the Android and iOS emoji sets is more of a process.
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At the end of October, the WhatsApp developers added the long-awaited support for stickers to the messenger applications. Until today, only pre-installed sets were available to users, and now everyone can create their own stickers directly on their smartphone.
Google Play now has a free Sticker Studio app that allows you to turn any picture or photo into stickers that you can add to your own WhatsApp pack. Users can upload up to 10 sticker packs with 30 images each. The app is currently only available for Android, but will also be available for iOS devices at a later date.
In order to make a sticker yourself, you need to select the outline of a person or object in a photo uploaded to Sticker Studio. The resulting image will automatically be added to the set, from where it can be easily inserted into the chat.
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I understand that this has nothing to do with objectivity, but my main gripe with WhatsApp has always been that it is not Telegram. I liked Pavel Durov's messenger too much - with its logic, versatility and an extensive set of functions. Naturally, I was not the only one, so it made no sense to be surprised that many began to switch to Telegram. But the developers of WhatsApp did not want to lose the audience and gradually began to offer users something that was previously unthinkable. First we were given the option of direct transferring chats from Android to iPhone and vice versa, and now they are allowed to create their own stickers. We will talk about them today.
Now you can make your own stickers in WhatsApp
How to use WhatsApp on a computer without a smartphone
So far, the ability of to make your own stickers in WhatsApp is limited only to the desktop version. That is, if you plan to make your dream come true on a smartphone or tablet, then nothing will work. WhatsApp Desktop or WhatsApp Web only. However, there is nothing complicated about this. So let's move on to the instructions.
Since we need the desktop version of WhatsApp to create stickers, being able to connect to it almost without using an iPhone is very useful. I myself use - if I use - only WhatsApp Web, so I will show everything using the example of the browser version of the messenger:
You can only log in to WhatsApp Web using your phone
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After the sign-in procedure is complete, we can postpone the iPhone - we will no longer need it. Now we go directly to creating stickers in WhatsApp :
The sticker can only be made in the web version of WhatsApp
Whatsapp has a built-in sticker editor
Naturally, WhatsApp only offers a basic set of tools sticker editing : crop, rotate, add emoji, add text, fill and decorate. In general, nothing special. Therefore, drawing a picture from scratch directly in the application interface will not work. But for situational stickers, this will be enough.
Whatsapp on iPhone doesn't know that you just made your own stickers
Despite the fact that WhatsApp allows to create stickers, it does not allow you to collect them in a single set (stickerpack). Thus, it is not yet possible to simply take it and send it to someone or combine it for later use. I would like this feature to appear in one of the next updates, because it will be more convenient to use stickers.
Another negative point is that the sticker you send via WhatsApp Web, although it appears in the chat on all your devices, is not saved to the sticker section on the iPhone. I checked, and the list of recently used stickers that I made myself was not there.
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What do we have in the bottom line? It is really possible to make your own stickers in WhatsApp . For this, the messenger interface even has a special editor that allows you to send not just some kind of picture, but even give it the appearance and content of a sticker.
