You will not need extra applications to create WhatsApp stickers: This option is already included within the messaging app itself. Currently in beta for some users, although about to be extended to all smartphones: we explain how it works so you can create a collection of stickers from your own photos.
Conversing with words or audio is not the only way to express what we think or feel, often an Emoji says much more. Or a sticker, the stickers that applications like WhatsApp include as standard. Although, what if you wanted to create your own stickers? Until now you could do it with other applications, but now it is starting to be possible from WhatsApp itself. And it's really simple.
Choose a photo from your gallery and decorate it to your liking
By definition, a sticker is an image in which a character appears expressing an emotion. Said character is cut out of the background to highlight only the expressions; Therefore, when creating a sticker from your photos, you need to remove the background during the process. WhatsApp does everything automatically.
The new functionality for creating stickers is available to some WhatsApp users and will be expanded soon with future updates. It is currently in the beta of the iPhone application, probably later it will reach the Android beta; for later expand stably to all users. Given the stability of its operation, we do not believe that this expansion will be far away.
The process to create your own WhatsApp stickers is as follows:
- Open any chat, you don't need to create the sticker in the conversation where you want to send it.
- Click on the Emojis, Gifs and stickers icon, the square with the corner bent. If you have an Android, you must click on the Emoji icon and select access to the stickers (square with the bent corner).
- You will see a “+” appear in the upper left corner. Click there and you will begin the sticker creation process.
- Your photo gallery will load. Choose the image you want taking into account that there must be a subject in the foreground (a person, a pet, an object…).
- WhatsApp will analyze the image, crop the subject from the background and surround its outline with a white stroke. If you want the sticker to be the unretouched photo, click on its bottom icon (it is not recommended).
- Once you have the base of the sticker, you can decorate it to your liking. Add more stickers, write text and/or draw freehand. Broadly speaking, it is like a Stories editor.
- Once you have created your sticker, send it. This will be saved in your particular list, within the “WhatsApp sticker creator” category.
- You can make all the stickers you want. And if you want one to appear whenever you choose a sticker to send, click on said sticker and select “Add to favorites.”
WhatsApp has greatly simplified the creation and customization of stickers so that we do not need other applications for the process. And the result is excellent: the editor perfectly empties the subject from the background and allows customization that, despite being basic, is more than complete for the task. Hopefully WhatsApp will not take long to expand the function to all users: currently it is only in the iPhone beta.
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