With the appearance of stickers on WhatsApp, the popular messaging application for your mobiles or tablets follows in the wake of other tools such as Telegram o Facebook Messenger that popularized them months before. The creation of these in the most used tool in the world to send messages is not difficult, and here we explain step by step how you can make stickers for WhatsApp With your photos
All you need is an internet connection, a terminal Android and some application to create them. We have used stickermaker. You also need to have, of course, the image you want to turn into a "sticker".
Although we based our guide on this application, there are many more of simple and similar use in the Play Store: you will only have to choose the one that best suits your tastes. And even if you want a better finish, you can cut out the specific image that you want to use with Photoshop on your computer to place it on a transparent background in PNG format and forward the image to your mobile device and open it with the application with which you are creating the image. WhatsApp sticker pack.
Step 1: create an image package
In order to add stickers to WhatsApp it is essential that you first create a pack of at least three items, so that the application includes these in the messaging application. Keep in mind that once you upload a sticker pack, users are free to share them, so keep this in mind when choosing images that you want to transform into a "meme" to liven up conversations.
In StickerMaker the use is very intuitive: as soon as you open the application it will propose create a new package. If you want to make a folder or package of items with the faces of your friends or family (something quite common and fun) you will have to create a package that you can call, for example, 'My friends'. You will also have to detail who the creator of the package is.
Step 2: Add them to your custom sticker pack on WhatsApp
Once you have the package created, it will be enough that from the same application you add the images that you want to convert into said drawings to send. You can use a visual file that is already on your mobile device or you can even take a new photo (the application itself gives you the option to open the camera). In our specific case we have used this toy BB-8.
When you have already imported the image into the application, it will suggest you use its cutting tools to adapt the silhouette in question to what you want to show. Here you can opt for square, circular cuts or even a free cut in which you will have to test your pulse. We advise you to use a touch pen or a device with which you can make delicate and meticulous strokes to achieve an optimal result.
If you don't get it, you don't have to rush either. The only thing that you will not get is to cut out the entire background of the image, and the result would not be perhaps so professional, but if it is to make a funny sticker with which to get out of trouble and laugh with your contacts, there is no major problem.
You can see that we have not complicated our lives too much: our plastic BB-8 has been cut with the circular tool, so that the sticker will be seen with that wooden background that is the table on which the photograph has been taken .
Complete a package to add the stickers to your WhatsApp
The minimum of StickerMaker when it comes to exporting these new ones to the popular messaging application is three. This is to avoid having single sticker packages taking up space on the servers. Once you have done it, you can complete the package and once this is done, they will appear in the conversation options of your WhatsApp.
It is done. It has no more mystery.
Alternatives to StickerMaker
You can make personalized stickers for WhatsApp with multiple tools, as we mentioned at the beginning. You have these other equally valid and interesting options. Try them all and choose for yourself which tool you prefer.
